Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (845 mails)

[Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx>]

Christian,

On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 03:16 +0200, Christian Jäger wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I think the decision to make Monsoon the default bittorrent client for
> 11.0 might have been a little rushed.

Several people tested it and this issue did not come up.

> 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!

Please file a bugreport against GNOME.

> - Once running, it won't accept torrent-files via Firefox. You have to
> download the torrent-file and add it to the queue manually!

Please file a bugreport against GNOME.

> 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?

It wont be fixed unless it's known so please file it in bugzilla so that
it can be looked at.

> Please let's simply get back to the working solution, i.e. Transmission
> and wait till Monsoon has matured.

AFAIK, there was no previous solution. We didn't have a default
bittorrent client before.

> Greets,
> Chris 

Thanks,
Magnus


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