Comments on: Azureus - Java BitTorrent Client in Ubuntu

By: List of BitTorrent clients Available in Ubuntu Linux -- Ubuntu Geek

List of BitTorrent clients Available in Ubuntu Linux -- Ubuntu Geek — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:01:09 +0000

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By: Bicycle Made For One

Bicycle Made For One — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:37:08 +0000

In case Mark never figured out the answer to his question
Anyone able to point a n00b in the direction of a guide to creating cron jobs to start and stop Azureus, to take advantage of off-peak download quotas?
when I used Azureus, there was a scheduling plugin which would do what he wants, and much more.

By: b-no

b-no — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:05:07 +0000

I stopped using Azureus when uTorrent came out (using it with WINE), since it’s used to hog all my RAM (100-300MiB back when i had 512MiB).

These days i’m trying to switch permanently to Ktorrent, because it supports something that Azureus did but uTorrent did not: SafePeer lists. These will keep phony peers from connecting to you (ie, those created by the RIAA, MPAA and friends) and send you corrupted data.

Also, Ktorrent seems to be quite good in terms of memory management, though not as good as uTorrent unfortunately.

Cheers.

By: T

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:14:50 +0000

I’ve been using Azureus for quite a while and it’s great but limewire which I also have installed keeps coming up as default downloader specially when using mininova to get stuff how do I set azureus as my default and keep it there Thanx for any help

By: Colqer

Colqer — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:39:10 +0000

Unfortunately, Azureus eats too much memory. I woke up today and could hardly open the preference menu. I need something that is light-weight but encrypts.

@ deaftorrental:

It is true that some ISP cut the bandwidth for P2P. It can go very high at first and then it gets cut to 1-2kb/s. The way to solve it is to use Azureus’ encryption (tools->preference->transport->require transport encryption), so that the traffic looks like a noise to “bad” ISPs.

By: deaftorrental

deaftorrental — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:06:48 +0000

I’ve used Azureus before in Ubuntu and the speed was blazing. Then all of a sudden it came down to a crawl (my ratio was above 4.0). So I’ve tried to uninstall and reinstall azaureus and start with no previous torrents but it kept finding and duplicating the torrents. There are different versions of Azureus to install so I’m asking which is the RIGHT Azureus to use for installation -

1) From the Add/Remove in the Application menu
2) From the Synaptic Package Manager
3) From the terminal using sudo

I’ve tried other torrent program (bittorent, deluge, ktorrent, and freedownloader (which I know is not a torrent but it’s the default downloader in Ubuntu).

Adjusting the router is NOT an option. It was fast before without messing with the router settings. I’m also wondering if my ISP is throttling as well so is there a way to find out? (I ran the speedtest and the results is high dl/ul speed so that may not be the issue).

I did a search and there’s still some Azureus file so I have no way of knowing if they’re safe to be deleted manually.

Thanks for the advice.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:19:52 +0000

I used Azureus on Windows before making the switch to Ubuntu, and so continue doing so in Linux. No complaints (yeat!) about the memory use, though as I start using Ubuntu for more and more, that may change.

2 things to ask:

1) the aptitude installer seemed not to work (as at late May 2007), would just exit out - apparently due to incompatability with newer versions of Java. Has this been fixed?

2) Anyone able to point a n00b in the direction of a guide to creating cron jobs to start and stop Azureus, to take advantage of off-peak download quotas?

By: r00tintheb0x

r00tintheb0x — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:07:47 +0000

Azureus is nice for semi-high end systems. I’ve noticed on my Dell c610 that Java likes to suck up resources when I use Azureus. A GREAT GTK alternative is Deluge. It is what I use on my lower end system, and it rocks!!!

r00tintheb0x

By: adzik

adzik — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:34:10 +0000

Although azureus is quite feature rich and an excellent client, I do agree with a couple people here that it bogs the system down at times. Too heavy in the a** when it comes to memory usage.

By: Slaptijack

Slaptijack — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:29:41 +0000

One feature of Azureus that I enjoy is the ability to run with a text-based console UI. This is perfect when used in conjunction with screen and a headless Linux server.

By: AC

AC — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:14:38 +0000

utorrent is non-free (i.e. not FOSS) software, FYI, though it is apparently quite good from a strictly technical perspective.

By: arijit

arijit — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:17:14 +0000

utorrent is the best torrent client. i am using utorrent under wine.
azureus is a memory hogger.

By: Wouter Veugelen

Wouter Veugelen — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:40:44 +0000

How is the memory usage of Azureus in Linux?
On Windows using Azureus is out of the question because of its gigantic (100 MB+) RAM usage.

By: brk3

brk3 — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:20:15 +0000

Ive being using azureus for ages, but one thing I could never find out: how do you make it stop those annoying pop up dialogs that keep appearing in the bottom right corner of the screen?! Ive tried setting option->interface->alerts to 0 but still seem to get them.
Any ideas?

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:37:47 +0000

Azureus has been my favourite for a while now

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 31 May 2007 08:37:28 +0000

I prefer uTorrent with Wine - due to the java-ness of Azureus slowing it down some what…