Azureus downloads slow

[Mitch]

On 09/02/06 18:06 PM, rlw2 at cec.wustl.edu wrote:
> > On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:30:31 +0200, <rlw2 at cec.wustl.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>    I am running a Azureus (headless w/ webui) on my FreeBSD 6.1 system
> >> and it works. The problem is that, for some reason I can't discover,
> >> downloads are slowwwww. It is not because of the torrent. It is my
> >> setup. Every couple hours download speed drops to under 1 kbps and
> >> availability drops too, so I restart Az. and download speeds are as
> >> expected for another couple of hours.
> >
> > http://www.azureuswiki.com/
> > http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Good_settings
> > http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Good_Torrents
> >
> > Make sure to limit the number of connections and torrents according to the
> > upload speed of your internet connection. Also limit your upload speed.
> >
> > Andreas
> >
> 
> I know all that. I am saying that Azureus on FreeBSD runs slower than
> d/ling the same torrent on a windows or even a linux (ubuntu) box when
> getting the same torrent from the same network.

FWIW, I had the same experience with Azureus.  For me, no amount of
tweaking or tuning made any difference.  I'm blaming it on native jdk,
only because I've seen some other strangeness with it.  I havent' really
tried to figure it out, so who knows...

py-bittorrent works great.