Does torrenting slow down your computer? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm curious to know if anybody else finds their computer behaving sluggishly or erratically when downloading torrents.

For the record: I use transmission on a 2020 imac and have tried other clients to little avial. A virus and/or activity check doesn't reveal anything untoward going on in the background.

I'm not sure what's going on, but torrenting is either resource intensive (possibly RAM) or writing to the harddrive results in poor performance overall. Or maybe its something else (like my vpn draining resources)? Either way, when I torrent I might as well walk away from my computer because that's all it seems it wants to do, and even then its performance remains erratic.

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[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 7 points 1 year ago

Check your activity monitor. It is possible that the bottleneck is lack of network resources or a busy drive.

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best idea. My guess is the hard drive is also getting overloaded by Windows helper tasks in the background.

[-] zout@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Probably not since OP is on a Mac.

[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago

My thought is more that there might be a bottleneck for the drive. In Windows a hard drive at 100% utilization slows down the system. I don't know what kind of drive op has, but poor perform would be displayed in the performance monitor.

Also, if they are playing games and the network is saturated, they would experience network performance issues.