Yes. Smegma is right -- the problem is that Limewire scales very poorly, not that it doesn't perform well with a small load. Increase the hardware from your AMD 500MHz and 128 ram to something modern, and increase the demands you put on Limewire in proportion, and Limewire chokes.

Well I guess mabey you should read some of the forum post on setting up L/W. I once had the same problem and followed Lord Of The Rings Sugestions and cleared the problem up. And as far as modernizing you mabey you should learn how to configure L/W before you speak. I have used all the P2P software out there and L/W is the best of all. On my machine I have been downloading up to 7 files at one time at speeds of up to 300KB/s and up loading 2 files at 35KB/s in ultraper mode. As I am wrighting this I am DL 2 files at 150KB/s and UL 2 at 35KB/s and I leave L/W running for days at a time surf the web and play games like Half Life 2 at the same time. Not bad for a modern machine that chokes on L/W. My current ues is cpu 3% Mem 52440

AMD 64 3200+ overclocked 3.2 GHZ
1 GIG 3200 corsair ram
ASUS A8V Deluxe
EVGA e-GeForce 6200 NVIDIA
Adaptec 29320 SCSI U320 Adapter card
2-Fujitsu 15,000 RPM SCSI ULTRA 320 74 GB hard drives 0-Raid
1 WesternDigatal 120 GB
I would say I have a fairly modern machine and have no problem at all with L/W. So mabey you should try fixing your settings before you make coments like you made then mabey the rest of us wont know how much you really dont know.

Try listining to others and good luck