[NBLUG/talk] [WLUG] Azureus

[Dan Pritts]

you could renice azureus to a lower priority, which will give firefox
more shares of the CPU.

find the process id of azureus with top or ps, and type "renice 10
xxxx" where xxxx is the process id.

If your problem is CPU starvation this should fix it.

Your problem may be memory starvation, in which case it won't
help - you can tell by looking at "top"

the "RES" is the amount of memory  in use by a process; 
SIZE is the virtual size which will be bigger.  Often this is
harmless, but it might mean you are swapping.

the "Memory" line at the top of top should give you an idea of the
memory & swap situation.

  http://www.unixtop.org/display/

alternately, you could use a different bittorrent client that isn't
a huge horrible java pig.  rtorrent, which i mentioned before, is 
lean and mean, but no gui.  Others mentioned other choices, probably
all of which are less resource-intensive than azureus.  


On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:01:24AM -0500, Jack Smith wrote:
> Azureus is doing a very nice job of downloading anime for me I'm downloading
> LOTS of files right now to make up for some bad backups.  When it's busy it
> seriously bogs down Firefox.  Is there any way to get Azureus to step out of
> the way when Firefox wants to do something or do I have to just limit how
> many it's downloading or the max speed it can use?
> 
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