An oddity...

I left LimeWire running over night and came back to find that while it was claiming to be downloading it wasn't...

There were four or five files supposedly downloading (one of them at 24KB/s). The download rate was not changing for any of the files although the time to completion was decreasing. My network connection was still up but the traffic was very low. Uploads were also dead.

I was able to do searches (my connections were still active) but couldn't kick start the existing downloads. Closing and re-starting LimeWire fixed the problem.

A quick look at Task Manager showed that a chunk of processor (around 30% of an AthlonXP 1500) was in permanent use by LimeWire. I suspect a task/thread leak somewhere (but not a serious memory leak).

I do currently have an excessively large download queue (thanks to the ability to resume incompletes) which probably exacerbates the problem (but shouldn't be the cause of the problem).

Mark