Comments on: Comparing torrent clients

By: tidux

tidux — Tue, 03 May 2011 23:14:04 +0000

I use the Deluge daemon, console interface, and web interface on a Sheevaplug. I’m a console junkie myself – vim, mutt, ncmpcpp/cmus, slrn, irssi, and screen are all my friends. I use Deluge because:
1. I’ve never been able to get an rtorrent web interface working right with the version in Debian Squeeze.
2. Sometimes I want to check up on my torrents on a computer where I have no access to an SSH client.
3. It’s in debian-main so I don’t have to manually reinstall anything to get updates and security patches – this is huge because it’s an Internet-facing server.

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[...] there, some seeding and some downloading. The idea was like the one I had a few months ago, just to dump as much as possible on rtorrent and see what kind of space it takes [...]

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Customizing htop « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:23:01 +0000

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Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:39:22 +0000

[...] Comparing torrent clients Purely in the name of science, I dumped every torrent I could find on the front page of LinuxTracker into the 600m, and let it spin up. That’s 86 torrents, probably more than 60Gb of disk space, and generally speaking a considerable workload. [...]

By: Tristan

Tristan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:24:23 +0000

I run deluge v.1.2.0 in daemon mode on a Buffalo Linkstation NAS (128Mb RAM, CPU ARM 400Mhz) and I use the web interface (ajax-based) to add/remove torrents file.

It is not as light as transmission and it is definitely not comparable to rtorrent, but it has all the features I need. My ISP gives me a NAT-ed connection and so far Deluge with DHT and NAT-PMP is the best I’ve found.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:48:26 +0000

My apologies then, I haven’t done a very good job of keeping track of it. I promise to investigate further, and be more judicious in my comparisons next time.

By: Oz

Oz — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:08:15 +0000

He’s right. It’s a client, daemon setup. You can just run the daemon without the gui. It even has a command line client you can use.

By: x33a

x33a — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:04:34 +0000

basic magnet support has been added to rtorrent, though available currently only as patches.

http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/955

By: Brett D

Brett D — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:56:43 +0000

I also love rtorrent with a passion. The only major feature I find it lacks from most of the other graphical clients is per-torrent throttling and that certainly is not enough for me to stop using it.

However, I think there is some fault with your comparison of Deluge. Hasn’t it gone to a client/server model with a service and web-based front end as well now? I would think that would use less resources then relying on the GUI front-end (if nothing else it’s certainly more flexible that way).

Azureus/Vuze has always been a bloat fest and not really worth anybody’s time.

By: vespas

vespas — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:01:35 +0000

while rtorrent is always going to be faster than gui-based clients, it’s not really fair to compare it to python and java-based programs. how about transmission or even mutorrent on wine?