Okay, I've read the other thread. I've let 0.6 run while I was in school (which I did very often with earlier versions) and am still a bit disappointed by the results. (Though it maybe was just bad luck today)
But as I now understand that this step was necessary to prevent the network from being flooded with too many unnecessary searches, I'll stop complaining about it.

Seems very unlikely. I've got an AMD Athlon 1.4C and more than enough RAM.

After all the complaining I should probably also mention that Phex is still the very best choice for a Gnutella-servent that'll run under Linux. KUTGW!!

Guido

If I save my downloads to the same folder I share out of, none of the items already in the folder show up in Phex. I didn't have that problem in the last version. Oh, and it also seems that Phex is somewhat un-friendly with my processor. (it seems to sit between 5 and 35% but occasionally jumps into the 90s)

Other than those two things, Phex is great!

Hi,
I've been successfully using earlier versions of Phex (up to 0.5.6) under W2K with JRE 1.3.1. I installed version 0.6 by doing same as earlier versions--extracting phex.jar to Program Files\Phex directory (overwriting previous version). On loading (using shortcut which runs "C:\Program Files\Phex\phex.jar") previous settings, downloads, directories have always been picked up okay.

However, I now find with version 0.6 that it no longer lists my shared files (in G:\My Music\Downloads--same directory to which I download & directory shown in both Download Setup & File Sharing Setup). In fact the Share window shows Shared Files: (0/0 KB). Directory actually has >200 .mp3 files--which used to be listed & could be uploaded by earlier versions.

I've tried:
- deleting phex.cfg & configuring from scratch;
- changing download & file sharing setup to use a different directory on different drive--into which I had copied some files;
- changing include files from .mp3 to *;
- rescan of shared files (usually after config change);

Still, no files are shown as being shared (are they actually being shared or not?). Downloading still works.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by GregorK
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I try to find a reason for the GUI freeze. It might be that the repainting of the fast changing host list is to much for your CPU. I will look into it further and check if other people also have the same problem.
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I've got a similar problem:
If another window than phex has the focus and then I change back to Phex, it uses up as much of my CPU as it can get for about 10 seconds and the guy is frozen. After these 10 seconds cpu usage drops to about 10-15 %.

Another question: Is it possible to compile phex platform specific? So that you won't need the java runtime and that it performs much faster because the bytecode dosn't have to be compiled.

That would obviously not be very easy. You would need a java-bytecode to native or java-sourcecode to native compiler. The newest versions of gcc (3.x)
have such a feature, but AFAIK the support for several of the standard java libraries - especially the ones for graphics display - is still incomplete

Guido

Hi!

I installed the new Phex 0.6 and I found out that it won't support long filenames in the shared folders! So it didn't find any shared file in "C:\Archivos de programa\Phex\Shared" but it did find the files if I type "C:\Archiv~1\Phex\Shared"!

I have it running now, but I didn't have time to see if it's more stable than 0.5.6 (after a day or two running I always got an exception in javalang.....)

Thanks!

And how does the software differenciate beteween stable and unstable connections?

By how long it's been connected, I'm fairly sure. I think >60 seconds is 'stable'.

Hi, is the "Sparky"-like Pong caching implemented into this version? It is still a little bit confusing for me what Gnutella v0.6 protocoll specification means exactly... I'm not sure which extension/suggestions are or will be in a Gnutella v0.6 protocoll.

Thx, Moak

Which extensions to v0.4 protocoll does Phex support in particular?
Is a documentaion to each of this extensions available, where?

Thx, Moak