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p2pnet.net News:- In general Bittorrent clients are not the most “resource using” applications. But how do they actually affect, and slow down, Windows?
Thepcspy compared the three most popular Bittorrent clients. And it seems that µTorrent is indeed entitled to be called “the lightweight client”.
The mean boot time of Azureus, Bitcomet and µTorrent were compared on a Windows XP Pro clean install.
Azureus 2.5.0.0 (+ Java Runtime) was slowing windows down the most. The test revealed a delay in the average boot time of 4.44%.
Bitcomet came in second with an average delay of 1.67 seconds, that is a slowdown of 2.22%.
µTorrent is the winner of these three BitTorrent clients, adding 1.33 seconds to Windows’ average boot time. A 1.78% slowdown, almost three times less than Azureus.
And to put things into perspective, Norton Internet Security 2006 caused a 57.78% slowdown.
Torrentfreak - The Netherlands
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September 15th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
thats quite an amazing statistic. Not so much the ones about the p2p clients but the one about internet security. I have never been a user of these types of programs as my old boss i had as a younger teen always told me that norton products tend to cause more problems than they fix. Nice to know he was quite right.
i wouldn’t have thought that the bt clients would increase boot time by up to 2 seconds though that is quite odd. I would think the resource takeover would occur when the client is running and hardly effect the boot up time of the PC itself.
September 15th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
AtGuard was an excellent product; when it was bought by Symantec all the bloat was added.
Same with Norton Utilities. History repeats itself…
September 17th, 2006 at 12:55 am
Shareaza is a wonderful torrent client and starts up pretty quick.
September 19th, 2006 at 3:58 am
would be good to know how it performs?? these are the 3 most popular on mininova, but etree and and any linux torrent show a different picture
February 18th, 2007 at 1:37 am