µTorrent for Mac released

Re:µTorrent for Mac released by tlrobinson on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @08:45PM (#378296)

µTorrent on Windows was leaps and bounds faster than other Windows clients (at least it was a couple years ago when I tested them). I'm not sure if the same is true for the Mac version, but if so I'm looking forward to switching to µTorrent.

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Re:µTorrent for Mac released by kqr2 on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @08:55PM (#378310)

For speed, you can run rtorrent which is just a command line client. It also has a lot of nice options which may not be available in a gui.

http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/rtorrent/rtorrent.1.html

http://rtorrent.darwinports.com/

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Re:µTorrent for Mac released by Zev on Thursday November 27, 2008 @12:06AM (#378438)

uTorrent is using 1% cpu and 14MB ram here on my MBP. rTorrent is using about the same on my server.

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Re:µTorrent for Mac released by kaens on Thursday November 27, 2008 @01:05AM (#378467)

I'm so glad I found rtorrent. I had just started learning my way around (n)curses to implement basically the same client interface, in python.

Instead, I'm looking at rtorrent's implementation, in my free time, and working on other things. Saved myself a lot of time trying to do something I probably would have done rather poorly.

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Re:µTorrent for Mac released by blasdel on Thursday November 27, 2008 @09:27AM (#378670)

I absolutely love rtorrent, I've used it for 3 years! I occasionally see crashes in extremely long-lived processes, but I've had it run for 6months+ with a week+ of CPU time used.

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Re:µTorrent for Mac released by est on Thursday November 27, 2008 @12:52AM (#378464)

In fact the fastest HTTP/BT/ed2k download agent on this planet is Thunder(aka Gigaget), which is built on a hybrid P2SP network. Someone may consider it leeching, though.

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