On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 18:02 +0000, g wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > <snip> > > 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. > > i have dsl lite i=765kbps / o=133kbps. in having used both ktorrent in f8 and > ctorrent in sl5.2, both used up to 85% cpu. Looks like you have the same problem as me. Once again: these numbers make no sense. > after watching graph in ktorrent, i disabled several sites that where being > checked but showed little to no action and disabled file access in, which > increased thru put from active sites. do not recall exact cpu change, but it > was worth it. > > with ctorrent, i again disabled file access which dropped cpu usage to below > 70%. 70% is still way too high. > have you tried setting nice? What for? Agreed it could lower priority for Ktorrent, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem. 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