On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 15:07 +0000, g wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > <snip> > > A look at > > 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single torrent) was using > > about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the rest. > > poc, > > if you define word 'torrent', you may have a better understanding to fact > that ktorrent is doing what it should. > > i have found that in using ktorrent and ctorrent, both are cpu intensive. > > if you want to cut it back, remove some of torrent's dl sites and disable > your 'supplying'. Frankly, that's not a convincing explanation. Torrents are almost entirely I/O bound, and this is a DSL connection rated at 2Mbps which in fact is less than that in practice. No way could a torrent client be eating 80% of a 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM. It's just not reasonable. Thanks all the same. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
