Windows 2000, Java 1.4 on an AthlonXP 1500.

From time to time, LimeWire/Java take up all my processor time (So much so that it nearly looks like the computer has locked up).

If I have sufficient patience, processor usage drops back to a more reasonable level (usually between 10 and 20% use) after a half hour or so.

I think that I have managed to close LimeWire during one of these peak usages - The Java VM continued to take up all my processing power (It is possible I just minimised LimeWire).

This has happened on a few (perhaps as many as half a dozen) occasions now. I'm reasonably sure it isn't new to 2.4 of LimeWire.

This could well be something like a garbage collection issue within Java and not LimeWire's problem.

I think most of these near lockups have started when I've done a re-search - but I've done a lot of 're-search'es that have not caused any kind of lockup.

Mark.