While Gnotella does not yet have the proven track record of Napster, I've found it to be a most useful tool for file sharing. I've tried others, but really like the ease of use.

Yep, I'm sure even if you have a processor in the Gigahertz range and 256MB+ of memory (you should, with RAM prices what they are now, if not, go buy some!) you would still have the program chug along at a snails pace, or even stop responding entirely.

With so many people with such different ranges of problems, it bound to be due to the program not freeing up resources properly. With that in mind, I've found that running Gnotella ONLY and no other programs besides the essentials for system security makes the program/system a lot more stable.

The program is still being revised, of course, and I'm sure these issues will be resolved. In the mean time, the best thing we all can do is report any bugs we find to the creators of Gnotella and hope they can resolve them in the next release....

A simple way of demonstrating the program still needs work is to hit the "STOP" search button more than once, you'll notice that each time you hit it the "Searched for" info will update to the current time elapsed. A little bug, yes, but let's us know that this program is far from being perfect. Yet.