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Originally Posted by adithyagenius

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Your system config is similiar to mine. BTW which ADSL modem were you using through USB?
Can you please check whether ktorrent supports disk caching by checking preferences/options? I heard that ktorrent can keep 10mb-40mb of pieces in RAM to prevent frequent hard disk access. But I also heard that the ktorrent does this only for downloading. It waits for 10 mb to be downloaded to ram and then it writes on hard disk. But for uploading/seeding it does not keep pieces being uploaded in RAM and frequently reads the HDD. My HDD is 6.5 years old and on its last legs. I want it to survive as long as possible. I tried ktorrent.org but the website provides very little info about its features.

I use intex 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Card and Beetel 220BX ADSL modem. The drivers of ethernet were available only for kernel 2.4 & 2.5 so I used ndiswrapper to install the WinXP drivers in the purane distros.
But the latest kernel should be able to detect the modem awa the ethernet card.
AFAIK Ktorrent downloads and writes the data simultaneously. This is what I think.
Sorry I cant check it now coz WIN2K screwed up my Linux partitions and I have to install the distro again. You can search google for this funcionality of ktorrent.