I use btlaunchmany.bittornado under debian Sid, and it ROXX.
I'm using this alias:
alias btseed='btlaunchmanycurses.bittornado /home/debian/bittorrent --max_upload_rate 13 --saveas_style 2 --display_interval 2 --minport 46666 --maxport 46670 --max_initiate 7 --max_connections 25 --displaypath 0'
so I only have to write "btseed" and everything works fine.
... or it'd work fine. But the max upload rate 13 does not work, it goes up to the theoritical maximum (16 kbyte/sec, I have a 128 kbit/sec uplink) --> my browsing and downloadig will be damn slow.
I don't know how the number of max_initiate and max_connections should be determined, but I set them to 7 and 25. I always have more than 40 connection though.
BTW, I came here to suggest one feature, it'd be damn easy to write: could you make btlaunchmany.bittornado write out the ammount of downloaded and uploaded data not only for each torrent, but the common dl'ed and ul'd data?
And if you'd fine-tune the max connections and max upload rate commands, would be great. But that's only a request of me, keep workin' on what you'd like.
Thanks for the whole bittornado project, cheers
dikki