Frostwire 4.13.1 Beta slows down my PC to a crawl

[dreamer82]

I have been a old user of limewire. Its java based GUI was very sluggish and i hated it. It used to slow down everything on my PC including the clicks and window switches !
I thought frostwire would be better than limewire. but to my utter disappointment, its the same irritating sluggishness which bogs FW down also....its a copy of limewire i guess. same UI and look&feel etc....

But few observation i want to share with users and members of the forum....and hoping few comments on it also

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I have seen that the sluggishness and slowing down happens when i have shared too too many files ( say nearly 1000 odd mp3 songs).
When i reduced the no of files shared to 60(currently it is 60 and PC is not at all slow) the system becomes stable and normal.

This i believe is an undesirable aspect of a P2P file sharing client.
Comparing with say utorrent which i use extensivly, which hardly makes any natble diff to my normal PC activities.

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ANother point : The memory footprint of FW is nearly 30-40 MB !! where as utorrent takes only 2-3 MB . ( checked in ctrl-alt-del task manager)

if only some new gnutella client comes up with comparable footprint as utorrent....

This is my first post to the forum.
Hello to all.

good bye...

[Lord of the Rings]

* For either LW or FW, continually defragmenting your drives is very important if you are a windows user (does not apply to mac osx users.)

* High numbers of Shares or incomplete files also contributes to slugginess. On mac OSX sharing over 2,000 files is not wise with OSX's poorer quality of Java & its poor memory & Virtual memory handling. Which includes memory leaks. For windows, making sure you have the best Java that suits your system & either of FW or LW are very important (sometimes one release of Java doesn't behave well, so updating or backdating the version can help solve a no. of issues.) Neither LW or FW seem to be able to handle external drives very well in my experience (though that might only be me, I have heard similar from some others.) See Tip: Purge the Downloads Queue! about reducing incompletes. In my experience, a large no. of incompletes has a similar effect as shares.

* Some methods of reducing drag on FW/LW: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/connec...tml#post129388

* After opening FW/LW wait 10 to 20 mins or longer before using. Let it settle down 1st.

* Don't download too many files at one time, LW/FW may have some problems connecting to all at the one time (depends on your connection & free slots & bandwidth, etc. also) & cause them to become queued. Perhaps the non-immediate connection will result in them not connecting at all. Thus need to cancel & reselect or re-search for sources.

* Making sure you have plenty of RAM and HDD space. Less than 25% free space remaining of a HDD will slow it down & thus slow down programs attempting to write to it. Of course fragmentation also affects the drive. Consider choosing a different drive to download & share from instead of the C:\ drive where the system is. I do this on both mac & windows.

* Oh & almost forgot .. some versions of LW/FW don't behave well on some people's systems. Consider trying a different version.

I'm sure some other people may have other suggestions. These are the ones I could think of at the time.

[nowshining]

frostwire is limewire by the way except for it's suppose to provide some things that limewire has only in the paid version and not to follow limewire's and riaa's plan to make it nearly impossible to download mp3s that are copyrighted..

anyway, i have over 3,000 + shared files and yes sometimes mine does go slow however if you want to, and use peerguardian block the client from chatting with the client server when it starts up, as there is no otherway to block the ips and this may cause some of the slugginess also there is no way to disable chat i believe except for this, plus it starts up faster.. i'll make another thread concerning this while i am on now..

edit: by client server i mean chat server such as chat.peerguardians.net

[dreamer82]

Thanks ....
i will check up the points and get back. ya indeed my downlod drive ( its a separate drive only for downloding) is having less free space. and its been ages since i defragged......

But the point of bloated memory footprint still remains .....wish a smaller s/w comes along.....

[wwke5994]

should I have two separate HD because I have a 20gig and an 80gig the 20gig has original XP version that some what stopped booting after SP2&3 loaded onto it but can't boot, the 80 has a crack version