Microwave Biscuit

I have been using Azureus for a long while to satisfy my bittorrent needs but it just kills me how resource intensive it is (thanks Java). I have tried several other clients and found them all to be lacking in some of the functionality that I want. That being said, I recently read about Deluge and decided to give it a shot. I’ve been using it for a few days and here are my thoughts.

The good:

• Uses half or less of the resources of Azureus
• Supports RSS feed scanning and filters
• Really easy to reseed previously downloaded torrents
• Nice set of features and plugins available

The not so good:

• It seems that I can’t easily “move” files that I’ve downloaded. Azureus has the ability to move downloads automatically or manually. Deluge can do it automatically, however I can’t seem to right click on something and move it to a different folder.
• On the web site there is talk of a built in scheduler for dl/ul speeds but I can’t seem to find it. That’s something I use quite a bit with Azureus as I don’t mind using a ton of bandwidth while I’m sleeping but during the day I share my bandwidth with several others and I like the ability to set max speeds for different parts of the day.
• It keeps all torrents in the same area. Azureus has a downloading and uploading area so that you can at a glance see what is seeding versus what is downloading.

My complaints aren’t many and I think I may continue to use Deluge especially given its much lower memory footprint. There are pre-built debs available (as well as RPM’s, sources, etc) including a AMD 64-Bit deb!

Link: http://deluge-torrent.org/