Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (845 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Sat, 3 May 2008, Christian Jäger wrote:

> I think the decision to make Monsoon the default bittorrent client for
> 11.0 might have been a little rushed.
>
> True, it looks nice; true, its developer is very forthcoming.
>
> But it seems far from really usable:
>
> - It hogs memory like nobody's business: ATM I'm downloading the
> openSUSE beta 2 DVD with it and it uses 54,3 MBs RAM and 414.8(!) MBs of
> SWAP; CPU usage averages around 25%. This is far, far above what
> Transmission uses!
> - Once running, it won't accept torrent-files via Firefox. You have to
> download the torrent-file and add it to the queue manually!
>
> IMHO those two are showstoppers for Monsoon in 11.0. After they've been
> fixed, I wouldn't mind using Monsoon, but can this be done reliably
> until the release date for 11.0 final?
>
> Please let's simply get back to the working solution, i.e. Transmission
> and wait till Monsoon has matured.

Until then, you can download the Beta2 DVDs "directly" from ftp5.gwdg.de.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)