Idling down to one host

Why does LW idle down to one host?

I'm using LW 4.8.1 running on OS X 10.4.1

I absolutely never have a problem with LW. But I can't figure out how to stop lw from dropping all my connections but one after I have not touched the keyboard in a while. Am I missing a setting somewhere?

It's a pain in the butt to move the mouse, wait on LW to sync up with another 4 or 5 hosts and wait 10-20 mins to get decent search results.

[stief]

It shouldn't take that long to get out of standby mode Are you hearing a lot of disk activity while the ectra connections are being enabled? If so, that's OS X swapping or activating virtual memory. The easiest way to reduce that is to have lots of free hard disk space and real memory.

(I'm still on Panther, so I can't easily confirm)

btw, there's no setting to disable the standby mode, which is really important for saving precious bandwidth, especially if you want to leave LW running 24/7

No I have no extra-ordinary hd activity, and no lolipop (hehe my favorite colorwheel term).

It seems that when LW comes out of standby, it's lost all of it's horizon and I just can't do any decent searches for a little while.

[stief]

heh, 'lollipop' is good. I'm used to 'beachball.'

I'm still puzzed though, because LW connects as an ultrapeer very quickly on startup here (not a fair check, I agree).

Anyway, a workaround might be to make yourself a more 'desirable' host by sharing more popular files. If others want to connect to you, that should improve the speed at which others accept your connection requests.

Still, that would defeat the bandwidth savings because your upload bandwidth would increase. However, if you can afford the bandwidth, that might be something to try.

Cheers

Thanks for you help Stief

Unfortunantly I can't UP, I'm hiding behind a router.

I'm averaging about 70kbs upstream at all times, and have been up for a few weeks. This standby thing just gets me down sometimes.

Thanks again for the friendly posts!

[stief]

I'll ask a Tiger expert to take a look at your posts tomorrow. If you're uploading at 70KB/s AND behind a router, your setup is fine and I'd think you'd connect very quickly. Just might indicate a problem with LW and Tiger and UPnP router configs, but he'll have a better idea.

Nice working with you--cheers