uTorrent is taking up 6,408 K. How many people have trouble sparing that! =)

Mr.Sparkle

@ARodX7:

Tetris rules on uTorrent :P

LifesSweetDrug

I've used this client since some early betas, and it's been stable and light. I stopped using uTorrent around the time when bittorrent bought it.

You won't find any extravagant features, but it does what it is supposed to, download and share. What else is a torrent client supposed to do, play tetris?

ARodX7

Great app for casual torrent downloaders, the footprint is a plus.

designerpcexpert

Uhm. I have 60+ active torrents in my uTorrent and it only uses 11Mb

nikeplektrum

I'm seeding 110 torrents in uTorrent and it's using 7MB. Woo!

MkFly

I wish there was something similar in the mac world. Azeurus sux in the mac.

gundan

Seriously? A client for a bandwidth-hogging application like Bittorent that's concerned with saving a few kb of memory? I guess that's ok, as a "let's see if we can do this" exercise. But the memory footprint is the least of my worries with my BT client; I'm always looking for ways to reduce the bandwidth footprint during peak times.

jswilson64

I like Utorrent better, it's especially hard to switch when you use utorrent to organize your torrents too, with the whole label system - it works so well! It's a filemanager for me too.

With 119 torrents, and only about 6mbs taken up, utorrent is the best!!! - there are no alternatives!

Usmanistan

@jswilson64: cap upload and download speeds?

also you can use the scheduler on utorrent to automatically cap and throttle speeds at different times. covered in this LH article:
[lifehacker.com]

GrayBird

@GrayBird: The problem with capping speeds is that it's not the speed of the torrent which slows down the rest of your connection but the way torrents transmit data. I don't remember if I found it here or on one of the other blogs but George Ou wrote a good article on why: [www.formortals.com]

yanni85

My PC has 2GB of RAM, and unless I'm doing something uber intensive, it doesn't really use more than 1GB. As it is now I'm logged into two accounts, have 30 Windows open (granted only 8 tabs in Firefox) and it's still only using a gig. Since my RAM would otherwise go to waste, I have all the disk cache settings in uTorrent maxed out. Might save some disk thrashing.

johnsmith1234

@yanni85: Interesting... looks like capping still helps though, just not as much as I thought. seems like capping for web browsing should still be ok. A turn-based game, slow FPS or maybe an RTS online might work too provided you cap enough. I'd stay away from the twitchy fragfests though. shared connections pose more problems.

thanks for showing me formortals, good stuff there.

GrayBird

Why fix it if ain't broken, I'll stick with uTorrent.

tonynyc

We use utorrent for its RSS abilities. It feeds MediaPortal that way. Works quite well in this household.

Xanderificus

wow. I'd been using utorrent for a while, but i just switched. although i've no problems with the RAM usage, I always want programs as lightweight as possible. why not?

and, halix is opensource. i think it's a keeper.

surfmadpig

My first thought was that it was a .net application (it certainly has that look) Which gives the illusion of using less memory than it actually is.

So it probably is quite slim - I hope those of you who care are running foobar2000 instead of something like iTunes for your music though :)

And it looks like it's OSS, so there's a major reason to look out for this over uTorrent.

Keep in mind - some trackers are quite strict about which clients they'll allow you may have issues :)

salmonmoose

@gundan: You could always just use uTorrent through Darwine builds, or Crossover Mac. It works great and I've seen no problems to date running it through Darwine. Granted, if you want a native application, you could take a look at Transmission.

I don't really know about this - uTorrent is just as usable for the casual torrent download IMO. And unless you're using an old computer or doing memory-intensive work, I don't think you're going to notice the difference in memory usage.

aukreaz

I've been using BitTorrent ever since I stopped using eMule way back in the day. I've never been especially happy or not happy with it but now that I have Vista, I've begun to notice that it can be a bit of a resource hog . . . or at least it's hogging up the few remaining resources left after Vista takes its share. Thanks for the suggestion about Halite.

Schulman99

Can't live without uTorrent's labeling and RSS features. The WebUI is also interesting.

omgy

µTorrent FTW!

ThaMofo

In Ubuntu I use µTorrent in Wine. Works a treat

johnsmith1234

Downloading Ubuntu in the screenshot. Cool. Can we get a hive five or whatever talking about best BT clients for Ubuntu/Linux? I am using bittornado right now.

chrishad95

I have a few MB of RAM to spare, so that's not why I'd use this. I'm intrigued because it looks like it shaves all the bloat--er, sorry, features--off uTorrent. Tabs and graphs and this and that. Just let me set up my dl and begone!

OX4

@gundan: There's a Mac port of Deluge. I hear it's pretty nice.

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

I like it. *Very* barebones. The memory consumption on my machine is about the same for both halite and utorrent. Between 8000K and 9000K. Halite in the lower end and utorrent in te higher. A little more on utorrent but not much.

Anyway. I really like it. (I have a crush for minimalistic apps...) :)

pomj

@ARodX7: Full Ack, I'm also using Halite for Years and left µTorrent. :)

Henry

It's good if you just need a no-nonsense client and if you really would feel the pinch of the difference in RAM usage. µTorrent sits at around 8-10 MB of RAM for me, anyway. That's with like 25+ queued torrents (4-5 active).

Captain Bringdown

I love the people claiming to be running 110+ torrents in uTorrent. And still using hardly any memory. Hilarious.

That said, I will NOT use Halite until it includes a Tetris feature.

leftist

@gundan:
like aukreaz said, Transmission. It's light, it works great, it is very no nonsense.
All round, Transmission is wonderful.

loudambiance

This is pretty nice. I have actually replaced my azureus with this. Azureus has turned into an annoying "youtube" type program where the Torrent dropdown on the menubar doesn't work and you have to go deep to see your torrents.

Halite has the RC4 encryption that I was looking for. The only bug I found is that when I tried to open the torrent file auto-magically with/from Firefox, the "where would you like to download" opens up but the torrent file doesn't actually load into the GUI. It has to be manually opened. Also the only other annoying feature all the half hidden column titles. Other than that, it's actually pretty clean and runs well. I will keep using it.

grapfx

I tend to debate on and off setting up an old pentium 2 box I can't bear to throw away as a bittorrent box with an SSL tunnel to send my downloads when I'm somewhere with a restricted connection. Good to know there is something smaller than Utorrent.

TVarmy

I use utorrent because it gives you the option to shutdown the computer when its finished downloading. I dont care about memory usage, because I never use bittorrent when Im using my pc....its usually downloading big files overnite ;)

bjb_nyj101