Have a 8250u laptop as well, is serving me well. Are you undervolting yours? If not, you really really should.
With undervolt and limiting boost behaviour i'm getting an extra 1/2 hours of use, depending on usage of course.

With covid lockdown i'm buying too much stuff. Well, let's put it this way, without knowing what cpu you have. A typical desktop cpu is running between 65/105w tdp. 3400GE is 35w tdp cpu. With 4/8 threads, probably running at less than half the power you current cpu is. Perfect for a small formfacto...

Oh man, just found a PRO 3400GE for 105€ on aliexpress, i'm really tempted to jump on that. Especially because GE apu's are almost non-existent in most of EU.

This is with io-threads set to 16. Looks more or less the same as value at 8. And it is using ssd's.

@mhertz I believe i saw someone mention on the libtorrent github, that scheduling sha1 threads on HT cores wasn't a good idea, as the two sha1 threads going on the physical core and the one going on the virtual core would be fighting each other over cpu resources. I think that is the reason i had it...

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Thanks for the response. Mine is set to 8 for a dual core 200GE. I would get 100% one core, and the other + ht would be 25/30%. Just set it to 12 just to see what happens.

Just wondering, did Deluge always only utilize 1 core for torrent traffic?
Running a LP system which can handle gbit traffic just fine, just not when only being hammered on one core.

This version deluge-2.0.3-lt1.2.10-boost1.74-py3.8.5-ossl1.1.1g-GTK3.24.23 appears quite unstable for me, if i try to use the UI at all it crashes. I'm updating windows to see if that helps. Edit: it didn't. After update, deluge starts and appears to run. But no UI is available, you can click the ta...

Thanks for the hard work. Just wanted to mention i experienced a lot of crashing with 2.0.3 lib 1.2.8.0, i am updating to latest version now.

I've experienced a lot of crashing with 2.0.3 lib 1.2.8.0. Just letting you know, but updating now to newest.