Sounds like it just turned the screen off to save power. Thats normal power-saving settings. The device your talking about would be running non-stop, but it would have been chosen for its low-power characteristics, ie the NSLUG, or my old laptop.
If its a laptop, and it had a supported CPU, then it could scale the CPU frequency (300Mhz, 450Mhz,.....1.6Ghz) depending on what it was doing. But *just* torrenting would require very little processing power, so you would start off with a "slow" CPU anyway. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
