Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Well, not quite, but I was alerted to this when my fan started whining > and the cpu temperature rose about 5 degrees above normal. A look at > 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single torrent) was using > about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the rest. > > This is F9 with KDE 4.1.1. > > I updated to KDE 4.1.2 (using "yum groupupdate KDE" from > updates-testing) but it made no difference (actually, the whole machine > started crawling until I disabled Desktop Effects, which hadn't seemed > to matter before, but even after doing that Ktorrent was just as bad). > > Is this a known bug with Ktorrent? I've been using it happily for a > couple of years and haven't had this happen before, but now it means I > can't use it without risking damage to my motherboard, which makes me > uneasy ... > > poc > Try rtorrent. It's CLI, but easy to learn and use. Far more efficient, takes a sixth or less of the CPU resources even with a bunch of torrents active as well as less memory than ktorrent. rtorrent uses libtorrent, both written in C++ with an emphasis on speed and efficiency, while delivering equivalent features to GUI based clients in a ncurses based client. Benefits are you can run it in a screen session and it persists even if you log out of your PC, or possibly have to reset your X session as well as accessing remotely via SSH. http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines