Nefarious Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 BTW, what is the default update gui set at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 1000ms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 @splintax: Do you minimize to tray by clicking on the tray icon?lol, you can do that? No, I click the "red X". I will, however, bet that neither Azureus or BitComet could MOVE themselves on a 486 lol, seeing as I struggled to run Azureus on a 700Mhz P3 I'd tend to agree with you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 Bah odd situation you've got going there... oh well, as long as µTorrent doesn't start sucking up 10-15MB RAM xP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 Bah odd situation you've got going there... oh well, as long as µTorrent doesn't start sucking up 10-15MB RAM xPHow amazing uTorrent is can be seen from our complaints at times: Oh God, it is soaking up 15MB of RAM! Oh no, I swear I just detected a one second delay in my movements with the thing running 300KB/s up and down! :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 lol indeed! With any other client, people have to accept the mass amount of RAM that it uses. µTorrent for the win!! =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 Well fucking said, Kazuaki Shimazaki! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 mine used to use a lot in one of the older betas, but it was a rare and somewhat hard to find memory leak (you'd only notice it after running µt for days ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 What, you're saying you're the only one who uses µT for days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 Well, no one else noticed the leak which was present for a lot of versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theant Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 For the record if anyone cares to keep track:I'm running µTorrent on a PII system 400 MHz running win98SEI was previously using AZ (and yes it was slow... usable barely... and VERY slow)µTorrent runs at a much brisker pace... I'm currently trying to keep it from crashing semi-frequently, and I'm getting there... found some of the problems and fixed them already... now to find that nasty one hiding under the bed.Even with the crashing, I'd vote µTorrent over AZ, just becuase I can recover a lot quicker, and I don't have to wait 30 minutes or more to shut it down.-The ANT...P.S. AZ did run faster when in the system tray... haven't noticed the need in µTorrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 theant: you're using the latest beta right?By the way, do you have any firewalls or anti-virus programs? µTorrent -SHOULDN'T- be crashing... Are you using a language file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theant Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Yes to both (kinda) for AC and firewall... the AV was defenitly a big contributor to slowdowns and crashes... I fixed that though... now it probably is the firewall casuing the rest of the problems... still testing to see if I can pinpoint it. and no language files. There is another thread that I started about a week ago I was going to put the results of my experiments in so I'll leve this one to be about the GUI eating resources...It's true it does... for µTorrent I find it's nowhere near the problem that AZ was... GO µTORRENT!-The ANT... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Well, try uninstalling both the AV and firewall to see if it fixes it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 P.S. AZ did run faster when in the system tray... haven't noticed the need in µTorrentprobably because Az was drilling your PC so badly just displaying the GUI that it had no resources left to actually download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 probably because Az was drilling your PC so badly just displaying the GUI that it had no resources left to actually download That's strange, because over Az does BETTER on my computer with it Maximized but I have 2Ghz. I think we've discovered a thereshold in which Az cannot take any more from your computer and can only crimp its own downloading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theant Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 yeah a threshold is likely... it's kinda wierd...in win98 you will always get better performance from an app if it is the "focus" app... and that was mostly true with AZ... except if I left it running for a long time, I did actually get better results from puting it in the tray, and I'm pretty sure it was because of the GUI draining resources...-The ANT... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Probably because the top application gets a higher priority. Or maybe just a placebo effect =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theant Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 It's actually documented that in the win9x series to get better performance on some apps, they purposly designed it so that the top app gets a higher thread priority... amazing but true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 It's actually documented that in the win9x series to get better performance on some apps, they purposly designed it so that the top app gets a higher thread priority... amazing but true.What's so amazing? It makes perfect sense that the top app, which presumably is the one you are actually using and seeing, gets higher priority?Doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 It does indeed make perfect sense, when you're doing CPU-intensive tasks. BT downloads shouldn't really be CPU-intensive (except for hash-checking), so they shouldn't significantly benefit from processing priority, except that low priority might result in them developing a "queue" of pieces to be checked. Well, that's the way I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 It does indeed make perfect sense, when you're doing CPU-intensive tasks. BT downloads shouldn't really be CPU-intensive (except for hash-checking), so they shouldn't significantly benefit from processing priority, except that low priority might result in them developing a "queue" of pieces to be checked. Well, that's the way I see it. Actually, for some reason, just updating a GUI seems to be a significant use of resources. Even uTorrent blows to twice the RAM usage when you maximize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 It's not really enough to make an impact on your system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 It's not really enough to make an impact on your system.True, but when one considers not every program is even a fifth as efficient as uTorrent... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Possibly because part of µTorrent's efficiency is in releasing resources when the GUI is not visible?Just speculation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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