Posts Tagged ‘P2P’
Recently I’ve been changing the softwares I regularly use in my PC. I started by shifting to another Codec pack because the other one is not working properly. Two days ago, I changed my regularly used BitTorrent client.
Azureus, the first BitTorrent client I’ve used. It is a free, open-sourced software (hosted at Sourceforge.net) that has many loyal users, one is my cousin. He is the one who recommended me to use this product. Azureus has a lot of good features and it never failed on me since I started using it a couple of years ago. But there’s one thing I don’t like about the software, it is a memory hog. It uses a lot of memory. Although my system has a lot of free memory for the program, I experience slow down when there are many applications open in the background.
Azureus uses Java on its client. I don’t know if that is the reason why it uses too much memory. Even with its downside, it has so many features that makes it a worthwhile product. But I have to try out another BitTorrent client.
µTorrent (micro torrent) is my first choice of replacement. It is a lightweight BitTorrent client, even the download size of the client is only around 215 kb. It has a fewer features than Azureus, but it gets the job done and uses a lot less memory.
I’ve been using it for two days now, and I haven’t encountered any problems yet.
