I've been using KTorrent as my Bittorrent client for over a year now, but lately I've been having some serious memory issues with KTorrent, if I leave running overnight it clogs up the main memory and even swap space, on average 33% of my RAM is consumed by KTorrent, this is not normal at all, not even Azureus was this memory hog. Apparently, there is fix, I've been running 3.1.2 recently and later releases have this issue fixed, too bad for me I couldn't find a package for my distribution.
While searching for something else, I came across Deluge, and my oh my! it features everything I need, not to the extent of Azureus or KTorrent, but not spartan either. Best of all it is truly lightweight, it consume way below 50MB on my current setup, your setup may vary depending on number of connections and running torrents, a far cry from KTorrent claiming 500MB and more.
Installing Deluge was a bit tricky, the latest version 1.0.5 wasn't in my distro repos, so I had to grab it and install myself, but that wasn't the tricky part, the tricky part was the dependencies that I had to install, because for some reason my package manager didn't sort it out by itself, luckily all the dependencies were in the repos and it took me around 3 minutes to get everything sorted out.
So if you are looking for something lightweight and very well featured, look no further than Deluge, I highly recommend giving it a try.
Here's an idea
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If you're a freetard, but you need to run Windows at work or something,
I've got an idea for a utility that will keep you true to the cause.
Well, a mockup...
16 years ago
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