1. OT: Bittorrent
- Posted by Marco Achury <achury at ca?tv.ne?> Apr 21, 2008
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What program do you suggest to download torrents on WinXP. I'm using bittorrent. I can't understand why this program takes a lot of memory (up to 700Mb) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Caracas, Venezuela
2. Re: OT: Bittorrent
- Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gma??.com> Apr 21, 2008
- 559 views
Marco Achury wrote: > > > What program do you suggest to download torrents on WinXP. > > I'm using bittorrent. I can't understand why this program > takes a lot of memory (up to 700Mb) http://www.utorrent.com/ Matt
3. Re: OT: Bittorrent
- Posted by "Euler German" <eulerg at gmail.com> Apr 21, 2008
- 568 views
> On 20 Apr 2008 at 17:01, Marco Achury wrote (maybe snipped): > > > posted by: Marco Achury <achury at ca?tv.ne?> > > > What program do you suggest to download torrents on WinXP. > I use uTorrent myself. http://www.utorrent.com/ > I'm using bittorrent. I can't understand why this program > takes a lot of memory (up to 700Mb) > It depends on how you set it, like number of global connections, number of peers per torrent, number of upload slots per torrent, etc., you permit. These settings will affect the number of concurrent threads thus the need of more (or less) memory. Sort of... ;) > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > Marco A. Achury > Caracas, Venezuela > -- _ _| euler f german _| sete lagoas, mg, brazil _| efgerman{AT}gmail{DOT}com _| ----------------------------- _| Reply preferably to the list, _| or to the address above. Thx!
4. Re: OT: Bittorrent
- Posted by don cole <doncole at ?acbell.?et> Apr 21, 2008
- 576 views
Marco Achury wrote: > > > What program do you suggest to download torrents on WinXP. > > I'm using bittorrent. I can't understand why this program > takes a lot of memory (up to 700Mb) > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > Marco A. Achury > Caracas, Venezuela I recently downloaded Azureus Vuze and got a lot of viruses downloading or using it. So be careful. Don Cole
5. Re: OT: Bittorrent
- Posted by Kenneth Rhodes <ken_rhodes30436 at ??hoo.com> Apr 21, 2008
- 568 views
don cole wrote: > > I recently downloaded Azureus Vuze and got a lot of viruses downloading or > using it. > > So be careful. > > Don Cole Can you say specifically that you got the viruses from downloading or using "Vuze" rather than from using the programs you downloaded via "Vuze"? Ken Rhodes Folding at Home: http://folding.stanford.edu/ 100% MicroSoft Free SuSE Linux 10.0 No AdWare, SpyWare, or Viruses! Life is Good,
6. Re: OT: Bittorrent
- Posted by don cole <doncole at pa?bel?.net> Apr 22, 2008
- 575 views
Kenneth Rhodes wrote: > > don cole wrote: > > > > > I recently downloaded Azureus Vuze and got a lot of viruses downloading or > > using it. > > > > So be careful. > > > > Don Cole > > Can you say specifically that you got the viruses from > downloading or using "Vuze" rather than from using the programs > you downloaded via "Vuze"? > > > Ken Rhodes > Folding at Home: <a > href="http://folding.stanford.edu/">http://folding.stanford.edu/</a> > 100% MicroSoft Free > SuSE Linux 10.0 > No AdWare, SpyWare, or Viruses! > Life is Good, Hello Ken, No I can't. Don Cole