[NBLUG/talk] [WLUG] Azureus

[A.C.]

One other alternative is to do traffic shaping at your router.  
De-prioritize Bit-Torrent packets on port 6881 (assuming that's what 
it's always using) and it'll give you a little bit better performance.  
However, I've found that with my 52k connection, setting it to a max 
upload speed of 42k gives me plenty of headroom (I can push it to 46k 
when only seeding to get a bit more out of it without too much pain).

Of course, YMMV.  Good luck!

A.C.
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jim stockford wrote:
> renice 5 xxxx might work, too. i.e. you might find
> some optimal value less than 10 (but greater
> than 0; you might also try values greater than 10,
> up to 20, though 20 might be so nice as not to
> run at all or much too slow; negative values let
> processes claim more CPU time rather than less).
>
> On Jan 1, 2008, at 8:21 AM, Dan Pritts wrote:
>
>   
>> 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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