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Lillymon:

--- Quote from: Roger3p on February 01, 2013, 08:56:48 PM ---Thanks for the info. Luckily, the problem seems to have stopped. Still, I'm curious to try a new client at some point (on that long todo list) and I want to test it if I get a repeat of today. I'll have a look at Deluge, qBittorrent and Ktorrent and see which is the lightest weight.

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Well if you want minimalist (and clearly you do) you should give rTorrent a look as well. It's high-performance and entirely text-based, so toolkits are irrelevant. There's a fair learning curve to it, but once mastered many swear by it. Otherwise, Deluge is able to run headless as well, I only use the GTK+ UI when I need to check or change anything, and it can be started automatically by an init script at boot. Deluge also has web and console interfaces but they don't seem as complete or polished as the GTK+ interface to me.


--- Quote from: Roger3p on February 01, 2013, 08:56:48 PM ---I presume I have gtk+ libraries because Skype works/looks fine.

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Having recently installed Skype on Linux I can confirm it uses Qt4 (same as KTorrent and qBitTorrent), not GTK+.

Freedom Kira:

--- Quote from: Lillymon on February 01, 2013, 08:27:39 AM ---This part of your comment doesn't seem to make any sense, you start talking about distributions then end talking about a desktop environment.

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Not sure if I mis-typed something, but what you explained was basically what I wanted to say.


--- Quote from: Roger3p on February 01, 2013, 08:56:48 PM ---I'll have a look at Deluge, qBittorrent and Ktorrent and see which is the lightest weight.

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KTorrent is definitely the heaviest of those. I'm running about 500 torrents, and it's using about 650MB of (virtual) RAM. Also, what Lillymon said about rTorrent.

buchno:

--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on February 02, 2013, 08:08:23 AM ---KTorrent is definitely the heaviest of those. I'm running about 500 torrents, and it's using about 650MB of (virtual) RAM. Also, what Lillymon said about rTorrent.

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Oui, I'm running about 750 torrents, and rtorrent is currently using about 220MB.

Roger3p:
Well, my ISP (or rather the nervous kid I spoke to) swears blind that there's nothing out of the ordinary going on. Honestly it sounded as though he wanted to be on the other end of the phone even less than me. It's funny because I phoned up ready to blast them and ended up feeling sorry for the guy instead.
Oh well, doesn't matter much anyway, I'm moving home soon (downsizing a little sadly) and my contract ends at the end of February or March. I haven't renewed it (not going to) because there's an established company offering a line + router + 1Mbps uncapped line for the equivalent of $30 USD per month (similar to what I'm paying for a limited data plan and speed-throttling during peek-use). Where I live this is a good deal although to US and UK residents it's likely laughable. The only downside is it's a 2-year contract.


--- Quote ---Having recently installed Skype on Linux I can confirm it uses Qt4 (same as KTorrent and qBitTorrent), not GTK+.
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Ah, it seems I was mistaken. Dunno why I had it in my head that Skype Linux was GTK.


--- Quote ---Well if you want minimalist (and clearly you do) you should give rTorrent a look as well. It's high-performance and entirely text-based, so toolkits are irrelevant.
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Just grabbed it, played with it, looks interesting. Learning curve doesn't seem too bad but it definitely makes its presence known :)
Will give Deluge a try at some point too, but this rTorrent looks too fun right now so I'll likely keep playing with it for a while.


--- Quote ---try power-cycling your router (wait at least 30 sec
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I tried that sadly. It usually does solve my internet problems though.

Roger3p:
[Topic Resolved]

Well, I've ruled out the client. Got rTorrent working and tried a random torrent with hundreds of seeders and nothing (didn't know how to check the errors yet so I'm jus assuming it was the same error).
I also gave Deluge a shot and I kept getting sporadic errors. It must be my internet connection :( oh well when the month end comes, I 'll be terminating them and then hopefully I can get the new guys in and get everything installed quickly.

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