Quick torrent client question

What does it mean when Azureus says a torrent is "waiting to scrape"?

 

I think it just means it's checking the tracker for people, but I'm not 100% sure.

 

Using uTorrent might make the problem go away That, and uTorrent is so much better than Azureus (by better I mean smaller).

 

I checked out uTorrent and worked with it for a few weeks -- I configured it to the best of my ability/reading of it -- and I noticed 15-20% lower download speeds of certain torrents, overall.

I do like how small it runs.

Right now Azureus is using 9-20% CPU and 130MB RAM. Total DL: 734kb/sec for 12 torrents, UP: 432KB/sec.

 

It's just a request that azareus sends to the tracker to see if its ok anf for some other information like seeds and peers and the tracker sends that info back to the client...

Jade, read more here
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Scrape

 

Wow, I wish I had that kind of bandwidth.

 

Thank you for the link. And from there I find there is a lot of detailed AZ client

information on Wikipedia.

All this complicated stuff (to me) is so exciting!

 

I feel the Opposite.

Azureus is much more stable IMO. And uTorrent being smaller than Azureus?

 

Well uTorrent was always under 90mb for me (1-5%CPU) even at 12 torrents.

Thanks for those who gave me links to alternative task managers =)

It's enjoyable watching a million numbers move up and down.

 

Azureus averages 50 -65mb at around 5 torrents on my machine. I never really ran 12 torrents at a time.

 

I learned my particular ISP on this list: http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Internet_service_providers_that_do_not_like_file_sharing

"limits bandwidth for accounts with a high traffic volume".

Is this perhaps why my internet, at times, seems unusually slow? This "limit

on bandwidth": how long is this limit enforced (hourly? Daily?) ?

Edit: Interesting reading about security on this page --- > http://azureus.sourceforge.net/doc/AnonBT/i2p/I2P_howto.htm

Here are some interesting notes:

1. I2P has 4 layers of encryption.
2. I2P does not have “out-proxies”. This means that it is not possible to connect anonymously to clients outside of the I2P network. Therefore, to use I2P, all participants (BT tracker and BT clients) must be explicitly using I2P.

(Sorry for all my questions about this -- everything interests me about its inner workings)

1. How does someone determine if everyone in the network is using I2P?
2. Has anyone used SafePeer for their clients? Does the blacklist list legit IPs by accident? The list is very very big...

 

I use PeerGuardian2.

Why are you using I2P? I know in utorrent there is an option to encrypt Bittorrent traffic to avoid shaping. I would assume there is the same in Azeurus

 

My problem with Azureus has never been how much memory the process itself uses, just all the memory leaks it had. Running 3-4 torrents would cause my desktop machine to go from ~250MB of RAM free to 12MB in about an hour. Even though Azureus may have only been using 40-50MB, it claims alot of RAM as cacheing space for torrent data write out and never lets it go. I don't know if that's changed since newer releases but I've switched to uTorrent and I've never looked back