Azureus with Vuze... Blech!


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Okay, here's how it goes: For the last couple of years I went through a process of transition from middle class, to lower class. As I seperated from my mother and father who are indeed separated from eachother, I was alone in the computing world with nothing but the piece of **** laptop I had from my father for christmas. It was marked down because the monitor flickered, so I was really surprised when it stopped working altogether. Who would have thunk. Moving on, this computer was so bad for running anything: 733 mhz, 11.8gb hd, 128 ram, 8mb graphics, running windows XP ultimate(thanks to an idiot friend who unwittingly installed it, and subsequently lost my version of XP pro).

Long story short, it had trouble running a search, let alone azereus. Then they added "vuze". There has not been a worse thing done in the history of open source. (<-Keep in mind this is an exaggeration inserted for comedic flare, I want no more discussions on the topic. ->:) ) This crippled my poor laptop and it would have to be left idol to download the games I so desperately wanted. Having a **** computer for 2 years, I became very acquainted with oldschool gaming.

Now, I recently got a new computer. I'm back on the block, and this time I'm not the kid with the speech impediment who has to ride a special bus. I am a man! Well anyways, since Azereus took up so much processing power I couldn't go into the task manager without a very outrageous jitter from my computer's innards. Seconds after the task manager would pop up Azureus would crash. This meant that I was unable to check how much memory Azureus was using. Since they added "vuze" their mem usage skyrocketed, taking up to 68 mbs of RAM(According to my new computer). This is an unheard of atrocity. I recently switch to uTorrent, ("mew"Torrent if you will). It is awesome, very little processing use and much of the same features that beginner to intermediate downloaders will enjoy. So to sum it up. Azureus, you do not get the RowRow seal of aproval

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I agree, although mostly because of the extra crap (Vuze), not so much the memory usage. I've seen my web browser (Camino) use more than a gigabyte of memory, so 68 MB isn't a huge deal.

I totally meant that vuze was the crap, not azureus. And seriously, I have never heard of that browser. If it's taking up that much memory, it has got to go. Unless you are using some sort of crazy ass encryption protocol :blink:

I hated when Azureus added Vuze. It forced me to move to uTorrent, which is actually a great slim program.

Yeah, that's what I switched to. It is remarkably easy on the RAM.

Camino: Open source mac browser. Heavily Graphical. Could easily swallow a gig of RAM.

^Indeed. 2.5.0.4 (I think) was the last good stable version without Vuse. Azureus just eats up RAM period, you should have known better to use it on such a poor PC.

There's also a build for the new version with the Vuze code ripped out... you just need to know where to look for it :whistle:

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