I have been running limewire since v1.7 and have been pleased by the improvements made, speed increases, better GUI, etc.

2.3 looks really nice.

Too bad it constantly locks up my system.

I have a G4/400 800mb Ram OS 9.2.1
LimeWire 2.3.3 w/80mb of RAM allocated
I use iTunes 2.0.3 (was using 2.0.4 but is buggy) for playback
I have a ton of blank drive space on the main boot volume.
My shared MP3s sit on another 60GB drive.


I have tried upping the RAM
I have tried sharing 0 files (before I was sharing 300+)
I have fiddled with the 'options' settings.

Sometimes it works for hours.

Sometimes it freezes up on boot. When Limewire goes down, it tends to take my whole system with it - I have to use the restart button on the box.

Sometimes the LimeWire screen goes blank - but does not nesc. crash the system at this point. Of course since there is no Mac menu command for quit (how hard is it to add a command-q ?) it is kinda tough to quit out of it. Sometimes resizing the window brings it back to life. Of course sometimes resizing the window is what makes it go blank in the first place.

I can't prove it but there seems to be a connection to running IE5.1 at the same time.


I just downgraded to 2.2 to see if it works any better. If it does not, I go back to 2.1 and then to 1.8. Unless of course 2.4 fixes these problems :-)

I'm not complaining though - just FYI to the limewire people so they can fix the bugs. How much complaining can you do about a free product? I hope all the people complaining in this forum have paid for the pro version :-)