Block Lists for Deluge & qBittorrent

24-August-2015 - Page rewritten.

Firstly, are Block Lists worth the trouble?

This is a highly informative article written by someone that knows what he is talking about: [1]

Some Background

I stumbled upon the above block list information some time ago now, due to Transmission-gtk not functioning particularly well on my machine.

So I decided to install Deluge. It offered more options & shows more information than Transmission, therefore it isn't quite as simple to use, though really its not that hard to setup. But you do have to manually import a block list...

Finding a Block List

(The most time consuming problem was finding a block list for Deluge to import.

If you want to use a Blocklist with Deluge, then open the Preferences panel, where you will find a Plugins option, a long way down the list on the left hand side; select it, then in the Plugins pane select (tick) the built in Blocklist plugin.

I found the block list that eMule uses looks to be good enough (for me anyway). It can be found here: [2]

The added bonus is that you can use eMule blocklist in other torrent clients. I use it in qBittorrent, & it works fine.

Block List installation

The Quick Way

For Deluge

Here is the installation path for the unzipped contents after unzipping the file & calling it ipfilter.dat :

~/.config/deluge/plugins/ipfilter.dat

For qBittorrent

Here is the installation path for the unzipped contents:

~/.config/qBittorrent/ipfilter.dat

The Slower Way for Deluge

Use this page: [3]

Which means, whilst still in the Plugins pane of the Deluge Preferences, select the Install Plugin button & then navigate with the file requester to where you have the eMule ipfilter.dat & then type the path to it in the location field (it opens up once you start navigating in the file requester), using the following format:

file:///home/<username>/<path.to.file>/ipfilter.dat

After that it may be a good idea to restart Deluge to initialise the block list.

Results

After installation, I've been using Deluge with up to 10 simultaneous torrent files, & it functions perfectly with magnetic links, & uses roughly between 6% & 10% of the CPU's power, shared over 2 CPU cores.

Which sure beats the upwards of 30% that Transmission was using consistently on my machine. Transmission had been functioning like that for many weeks & using a number of different kernels?

I fairly quickly moved on to qBittorrent which I have now been using for years. qBittorrent uses less CPU, has a great internal search engine & is extremely reliable.

Support

Following is a link to this page's forum counterpart where you can post any related feedback: [4]