I have some questions about Ktorrent
does it have 'peer exchange'(pxe) (I've got the impression that it has)
how much memory does it normally use?
how high(or low) is the cpu load?

btw keep up the good work, this seems to be one of the best bittorrent client I've seen
(Haven't tried Ktorrent yet but anyway )

XyC0 wrote:I have some questions about Ktorrent
does it have 'peer exchange'(pxe) (I've got the impression that it has)

It doesn't have peer echange, unless you want to call DHT peer exchange.

how much memory does it normally use?

That depends on the architecture (my amd 64 uses at lot more then my P3), what plugins you are using, number of torrents ...

how high(or low) is the cpu load?

This depends on several factors, but it should stay below 5 % most of the time.

I am running ubuntu dapper drake on an old amd duron 700mhz. KTorrent uses 4% of cpu when totally idle, and around 15% when downloading at a normal rate. It can get up to maybe 40% when I'm downloading at around 750k/s and uploading at around 36k/s.

I have 640mb of 133 SDRAM in the box. Right now, with one torrent loaded but not downloading, infowidget, scheduler, scanfolder, and partial file import plugins, the memory useage is about 4%. I've never really payed attention to it, but I don't think it's ever been above 10-20%, so that would be 64-128mb (and includes any shared libraries that are also used by other processes), but this is just a guess really.

I'd say CPU useage should never be a problem, and probably not memory unless you have less than 512mb or have a lot of big torrents loaded.

George wrote:It doesn't have peer echange, unless you want to call DHT peer exchange.

I mean 'peer exchange' as in 'peer exchange'.
Tanks for the clarification

phantom042:
Tanks for your system info

Why do you think ktorrent use PEX? Because the history in the wikipedia Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clients page has a note with PEX?

If it is:
Don't look at that, that's just me (a biased svn tester) with a habit of writing A but meaning B
The page is up to date, i just updated some things a few days ago.
(disk-cache and socks i am not sure of though, but they are marked as ?, so that's fine)

I am using ktorrent on Kubuntu 5.10 built from source.

I have an AMD Athlon64 3200+ and 1gb of RAM. Right now I have 59 torrents seeding and none downloading. I'm currently uploading at about 80k/sec.

My CPU is idling at 2% (low) to 9% (high), averaging about 5%. I have several other applications open, though, so I can garuntee you it's not all ktorrent.

I'm currently using 270mb of RAM. I estimate that ktorrent is using about 70mb of that.

This is much better than Azureus, which, in similar circumstances, would use more than 250mb of ram.

stoeptegel: no i did speed reading on some forum discussions, but i did a reread(slowly) just now, and it seems that i just did a reading error

Toran: tanks for the info
btw is the menus in kubuntu cluttered(one of the few things i hate about kde) or are they cleaned up as like ordinary ubuntu?

I'm about to prepare to switch to Linux as a primary desktop.. so I'm searching for replacement apps, i am currently in windows now and running µTorrent, best client in windows in my opinion
And now it seems that i found one for Linux too