Windoze 9x sockets are pretty weak -- opening too many too quickly causes problems..


I'd turn down my Gnutella client's settings to 2 or 3 connections (I've found specificly that many Gnutella nodes *reject* connection attempts so alot of sockets get opened while searching through the host cache - this is when I sometimes get out of memory errors)

Doing a NETSTAT -AN (in a DOS box) right then I see tons of opened sockets waiting to close...

They do clear in 3.min however you still want to avoid opening them whenever possible - other apps cause problems as well (original Gnutella, GetRight come to mind) when they open too many too fast.

I connect to only 1 or 2 other hosts and note the number of "friends" they have - searches work great.. If you don't find what you want wait a few min then disconnect from those 1 or 2 hosts and connect to another pair, try again (sorta like hopping servers on Napster)

Allow only 1 or 2 D/L's & U/L's, 1 or 2 connections

(Low bandwidth, low socket usage operation for dial-up)