If you're experiencing better deluged performance with a different client, it seems to suggest that it's a function of how the two clients poll the daemon. I've found slightly better daemon performance (80% CPU instead of 100%) by removing the Up and Down Speed info columns in the GTK client; I'm pr...

@keepitcomplicated Native OSX client?! Tell your friend to start a Google Code project for that or something, stat! I'd love to help test out a binary, and may even be able to contribute to its development (time permitting). I've been using the GTK client as compiled through macports, but a true Coc...

@keepitcomplicated I, like you, switched from a Windows seedbox to this Ubuntu box. At the time of the switch, I had about 800 torrents going. It exhibited this sluggish behavior in the GTK remote and local clients, both of which I attributed at the time to network congestion ("oh, it's just th...

I'm also interested in this. I have been running a headless Ubuntu seedbox with ~1000 torrents for the past few months, and have noticed terrible (100%) CPU usage whenever the GTK client is connected either locally or remotely. By contrast, deluged itself only uses ~15% CPU on an Atom N270. I antici...