I've been using LimeWire for the past two months, but I've also just quit using it. I love the features, but the aggravation and hassles make this application worthless to me (not to mention all the other Mac users complaining about the same thing).

I have a G4, 533 digital audio PowerMac, with 256 MB of RAM and a huge harddrive. I have allocated 50MB of memory to LimeWire.

It doesn't matter whether I do one search, or many searches, or no searches at all. The application simply freezes / hangs up for anywhere between 30 seconds to 1 minutes ALL THE TIME. During these freezes, I can't do anything else on my computer, either. Everything just stops.

I've seen comments about Apple's poor Java threading, but LimeWire is the only Java app that I have a problem with. If LimeWire wants to support the Mac platform, GREAT -- except, make sure the darn thing works right first.