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- TheBarbarian, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21Here's a fix: http://www.utorrent.com/
- thechitowncubs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12OMG, what did they do to their somewhat usable bittorrent client?
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Damn, that's still the only reason I never got into using Azureus. I mean I'm fine with Utorrent and all (and Bitcomet before that), but it was still nice to have all of the gadgets and flexibility that came with Azureus. It's a shame it eats up so much memory and cpu.
- JShore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yeah it is, even more so with 3.0.
- georgemoore13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@ musntSurfatWork
Hey, memory and CPU usage is still a concern. Most of the time, Azureus uses 20% of my 2 Ghz CPU on my macbook. That is a significant portion of my computing power, especially when trying to do other things (like use parallels or handbrake)
And currently, Azureus is using around 200 MB of real memory and 800 mb of virtual memory.
That's a lot (even though I have 2 GB)
I often have a 2 or 3 GB swap file. It isn't that difficult to bog down modern machines. - elpayo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Direct download link: http://www.zudeo.com/az-web/Download.html
- CHurst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Agreed. I start it up and see a picture of Elton John? No thanks.
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah, when Azureus takes hundreds of megs and 20%-30% of my CPU's resources on one or two downloads at a time and Utorrent hits like a max of 30 or 40 megs and usually hovers at close to 1% cpu usage when downloading 4 or 5 separate torrents I worry about system usage. There's no reason to run a Azureus when Utorrent pretty much does everything that it does at the same speed at a fraction of the usage - good computer or not.
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Agreed
/me throws up - thechadstannard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+63.0 stinks. when i uninstalled 3.0 my 2.5 no longer worked. wtf
- CHurst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Screenshots:
What appears when first opened:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q34/CHurst5841/open.jpg
"My Library:"
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q34/CHurst5841/MyLibrary.jpg
"Advanced" (a.k.a. Azureus)
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q34/CHurst5841/Advanced.jpg - Kuipo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"People still ask about memory requirements today?
It may not work with your 486SX"
I have a Core2 Duo 2.66 with 2gig's of nice RAM and I still don't want a bunch of random crap taking it all up. The best way to make your system run like a high end machine is to treat it like so and keep the extraneous resource use down to a minimum. If you want your nice new computer to run like a 2 year old dell then go right ahead, the rest of us resource Nazi's will be running our machines the way we meant them to be used when we built them. - shad0w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm confused. Does Azureus 3.0 = Zudeo? Did they change the name? What is going on?
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wow, so Azureus went corporate... It was bloated before, but it was tolerable. This sounds like a lot of new junk that I have no interest in. I guess I'll finally be switching clients.
- serend, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@surian
maybe you don't know how torrent's works. when the file is(done) downloading it uploads to all other peers. you should adjust your bandwidth allocation if your uploading too much. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Hear that?
It's the sound of previous Azureus users switching to uTorrent en masse. - TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Unfortunately, a lot of trackers ban Transmission because of improper handling of torrents or something like that.
- surian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I actually had problems with azureus gobbling up my bandwidth even when it was not downloading anything at all. As soon as I opened azureus it just sucked up every last bit of my bandwidth.
No other bit-torrent client I ever used did this.
If I could figure out how to stop this, I'd switch back in an instant. - TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Anyone know if Azureus 3.0 Beta is as much a memory hog as 2 is?
- sunnyd71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Uninstalled in 3...2...1...GONE!
- saintdesy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh jeez that is freaking terrible. I hope they continue developing for Azureus2 as well and don't try to shove this down peoples throats, or else it just might be time to go to the plug-ins pane and turn off 'azupdater'
- zixxer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i just tried it out and all i have to say is "***** that" ill go back to 2.5 or another client...i dont like where this one is going
- Kollagen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Click on the advanced tab will take you to the interface your familiar with.
I really hope they offer a stand alone azureus client without this zudeo crap built in. - ampersand2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great...I'm expecting some spyware and an eventual attack by the RIAA, followed by a TV Movie.
Napster the sequel.
I'm going to stick with 2.5 FTW! - SpookyET, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Azureus is dead to me. Now, it is just another Democracy Player.
Alienating your users to push a video shop is stupid.
Azureus' old interface sucked. But the new interface is horrible.
I expect a fork soon. - sven007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@musntSurfatWork,
i run my bittorent client on my p3 server with 256mb of ram, so i really need to save up on my ram. i wont use a high end machine running 24/7 downloading files. - Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow this sucks, I was a big fan of Azureus before but I just installed 3.0 and it's horrible. Not only ugly, but difficult to use. You can't double click or right-click anything and it's hard to navigate. I am highly dissapointed. The Sourceforge page also seems to be taken down.
- burndive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Delete your ~/.Azureus and/or ~/.azureus directory.
- maledei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Article on Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72223-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
quote: "BianRosa says his company's video service is more than just another YouTube clone.
"Our main target is high-definition video, which is a whole new market online," he says. "People will be able to post any kind of quality on our platform, but on top of that, we also make it possible to post videos that exceed DVD quality.""
I'm not so sure if this will be the "next youtube" with HD-content. The average user won't bother installing a bittorrent client when the alternatives are entirely web-based and thus much more comfortable. - stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://ktorrent.org/
Ktorrent is excellent, if anyone is looking for a low-resource client. Compiles with Fink in OS X, also. Has the anti-p2p ip stuff built in, and you can set the memory usage.
About as close to uTorrent as non-windows folks can get. - surian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@serend
Actually, I do know how they work ;)
I can start Azureus up and have absolutely no files in the queue (download or upload) and it'll still suck up the bandwidth from everything else.
No one else has this problem? - vypergts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Because there is a big ad on the same page telling people to go to Zudeo.com to get it.
EDIT: crap, beat me to it. - thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was hoping that by now Bittorrent would be integrated into web servers and browsers as a really effective way to distrubite large static pages... among other things. I was also expecting it to become so ubiquotously implemented that you don't really need to know what BT is in order to be able to use it. Is "multimedia clearing" house really the natural evolution of bittorrent clients makers?
- Ryokurin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1On the very top of the page is a graphic that says visit our Zudeo site along with a Azureus 3 logo.
- vermin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They had made some improvements to performance in the later 2.x.x versions, haven't tried 3 yet.
- Navitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Only reason I still use Azurues is its just insanely fast for downloads you cant always connect to peers/seeds that well on utorrent or other bittorrent clients. It has so many options you can adjust and I love that about Azureus. I download torrents with Azureus and seed to 1:1 then continue seeding on utorrent. I dont know about 3.0 though =
- cynicist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Any memory that isn't being used is being wasted imo. Having said that, my Azureus client (from their site) on average uses 60-80mb of memory in Ubuntu. I don't think thats a big deal.
- Kuipo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1really? anyone got some screenshots of the interface. I looked thru their site but didn't see any.
- DPowers08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do any OS X users know how to disable the menu bar icon? I can't seem to find the option for it...
- ozroy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was having some real problems with azureus in ubuntu. It would start to hog 100% of the CPU and chew heaps of memory.
I soon worked out that it wasn't azureus but the java that came with ubuntu. So I dumped gcj and installed blackdown java. Now it's CPU usage is around 2% and memory is 80M (still not great, but better). - BassJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My Azureus takes up about 200-250MB ram I think, sometimes more, I also had a problem whereby if it was maximized the CPU usage went up to 100%
Azureus runs on my server so it's not a major problem with the CPU/Ram usage and I use the azsmrc plug in to remotely monitor and manage it now as opposed to VNC-ing into the server each time I needed to check it! - crosswick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My 2 cents: this is definitely nowhere near "the next Youtube". I just tried it: it takes ages for the Honda "Cog" movie to download, and once I finally get it, the audio doesn't work in VLC, and the picture's screwed up in some weird way. Zudeo/Azureus doesn't have a built-in player.
Youtube is all about *instant* playability. This is most definitely not instant.
Worst of all, this might cost them a lot of Azureus users. - mpam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They should invest all this energy they use to make useless functions to transcode Azureus into C++ and optimize it... I have version 2.5 and it misses no feature except the one for using less CPU/memory (ok, this isn't very slow, but it could still be better I think) and the one for running without JRE installed.
@musntSurfatWork : it's ppl like you who make Microsoft think it's normal that their Vista uses so much resources. - Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I did notice the advanced option, but it's only there until you click somewhere else, then you have to dig thru the menus to open it again. And you still have the ugliness surrounding it.
- burndive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm a code monkey, and I agree. That kind of configuration interface is OK for in-house testing apps, but NOT release software.
- saintdesy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just switched to KTorrent yesterday since I was having some problems with Azureus under Ubuntu. All said though, I've used 5 BT clients and Azureus is by far and away the best. Not only can you tweak just about anything to make it perfect, you can get/make just about anything you need in the form of plug-ins. It also has the best DHT implementation of any client, and quite a bit of potential with the whole magnet link thing. Best feature though is the extensive visual aspect of it. I can "feel" and see what the hell is going on with my torrent. I'm quite convinced I can divine the quality of a torrent by this "feel" alone.
Shame they're going all businessy on us.
P.S. Anyone who is having crazy resource problems with Azureus needs to do something about their settings. I still run it on my crappy laptop and I can simultaneously
run that and Civ4 w/ large map. - wafflesomd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This torrent client has too many things in it, it sounds dumb, but I like em simple.
I prefer the regular bit torrent cleint, plain and simple. - tulsapoke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Azureus used to chew up so much of my system that my wife would close it anytime I left it running in the background, after a switch from XP to Suse Linux she can't even tell when it is running. Looks like about 5% cpu utilization on my 4yr old 1.6ghz processor pc.
- RHinNC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not too impressed. Installed, took forever to load a video. Decided I wanted to uninstall and I wound up going back to a restore point. It would not uninstall.
- Navitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think there gonna merge these 2 together. There on two completely different sites, plus the azureus community is tight nit so everyone would go ballistic if they tried to corporatize and merge the two (not that everyones not going crazy already :P) I see this as a good thing if it gets your average joe using bittorrent and thats always a good step in the right direction.
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