About BitTorrent Clients

AnalogX writes some pretty nice software. On Tuesday, he released a new public beta for his own BitTorrent client, BitPump. I've tried it. It's kind of nice. It definitely has the look and feel of his other software. I think he recycled the graphing code from his NetStat Monitor application. This isn't a bad thing. I'm just saying that AnalogX's BitTorrent client looks pretty much exactly how you'd think it would.

Lately, I've gone back to the Mainline BitTorrent client, if only because careful queueing of .torrents with Mainline saves a lot of stress on my machine that Azureus would otherwise consume whole. Don't get me wrong. I love Azureus, and sometimes it's the only thing that fits the bill. It is, however, simply huge, and my pokey old PC from the year 2000 can't handle the creeping horror that is the Java 1.5 virtual machine. Bram's Mainline client works great and occupies a fraction of the space of Azureus. Running Azureus creates a noticable performance hit that goes away almost as soon as javaw.exe quits.

Perhaps if I owned more RAM, or had a faster processor, Azureus wouldn't crush my UI experience. As it stands, Mainline is tiny and tight. It gets the job done and it doesn't drag system resources down to Hell with it.

I suppose I might install BitPump on my workstation at home. It's too early to decide if it's "better" than Mainline yet or not.