GregorK:
My computer never freezes or crashes like that, it only did this when I was testing Phex. And in Phex it seems to only happen when searching. There wasn't extreme CPU use that I noticed, only sudden total lockups.

I am not using Java very often and of the few java-based progs I've used none caused such freezes. I install and uninstall a lot of progs actually, but while some of them are buggy and crash, general lock ups never happen (winxp so beats win98 in that department). Well, is it a bad Java install then? Or is Phex known to be allergic to some progs or some configs? I'd like to hear about that.

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arne_bab:
Winxp SP2, PIII 600, 512MB RAM, 2 small 6GB drives
Obviously this is a pretty old computer.

Since I don't have a very large HD space I can't share that many files, obviously. And as a matter of fact I don't. And the ones I am downloading only have a dozen sources in general. So...

Seeing so many posts about Java-related lockups, I have to assume it's bad Java in my computer but maybe I don't know how to clean it up completely for a perfect reinstall.

Thanks for your replies.

Sorry.. I can only guess blindly what it could be..
I have seen many cases where the Java VM crashes or where the system hangs for a few seconds or also where Phex stops reacting.
Sometimes that can be solved by a Java update or a Phex fix.
But system crashes I have seen only very rarely. I know of a few BSOD cases resulting from incompatibility between certain network drivers and Java on high system load. But a different Java version or driver update tend to solve these problems.

The age of your computer should not matter much, you could configure Phex to run with low resources in 'leaf' mode. The only thing that might be a little low is memory. Java likes to eat memory! But I guess Phex should stay below 70-80MB if you don't challenge it to much.

Sometime there can be problems when there are multiple Java version installed on the same system, so you can try to uninstall all Java versions through "Add/Remove Programs" and do a clean install. Java is not very invasive on your system, so there shouldn't be any trouble with uninstall artifacts.

Gregor

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This means, that processing your shared files shouldn't be the issue, so we can sort that out.

I guess, I'll have to leave it to Gregor - my knowledge of Javas inner working doesn't go far enough.

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