Slow OS with Limewire
 

Help Me. I am running a Powermac G4 with plenty of ram and hard disc and a cable/dsl internet in OSX. For some reason when I launch limewire I experience an extremely slow OS and other functions...including internet. How can I get my computer up to reasonable speeds when running limewire?

go in preferences, upload, there is an upload slider, put the slider at 3-4K/s less than your maximum upload speed. To avoid limewire being cpu hog, hide it when you don't use it with command-H.

Slow OS?
 

I think Limewire has been, and is still, going through a bad patch in its OSX version (Java-based applications do tend to be a bit slow anyway). I actually stopped using LW 2.9.8 and OS10.2.5 because not only did my eMac slow to a crawl, it repeatedly crashed when LW was in ultrapeer mode. My experience suggests that changing the upload commitment makes no substantial difference and, after experimenting, I leave it at maximum to support the Gnutella ideal. Running as a leaf only was an improvement. However, I'm now running LW2.9.10 on OS10.2.6 and things are a little better than before with other internal applications running, but put another net package up and that slaps the brakes on again with that colourful little wheel spinning away as if we have to wait for the resident hamster to complete its exercise routine before anything else can interwork on the net.

So the moral of this is: by all means try changing the upload commitment as et voila suggests — it might work for you — but either use the most recent version of LW or drop back to earlier versions as a temporary fix (temporary because, in the next few upgrades, Limewire will start limiting its traffic to hosts running the most current LW versions) and don't run your e-mail and Explorer/Netscape software at the same time.

" and don't run your e-mail and Explorer/Netscape software at the same time."

Ouch, talk about a pedestrian approach. We've got an OS that multitasks, and poorly coded software that destroys that accomplishment.

Luckily, it crashes frequently, so you can get some other stuff done in between launches. :oP

Backburner
 

Hi

To be honest, I've put the use of Limewire on the backburner for a while. The boys in development are working on an implementation of Java 1.4.1 and, when that arrives, I might get more serious about it again but, in the meantime, I'm avoiding the crashes and getting lots of other things done instead. My advice may be pedestrian. My apologies for not being the bearer of really good news.

Me, too. I hope you're right and these folks get over the hump soon. We've been waiting a long time for it.

ME 3 just downloaded new 3.0 and it also is just too slow i cant do anything else when limewire is up ITS BAD i know its limewire cause once i shut it its all great I am running g4 graphite with 704mb of ram and cable dsl limewirehas a serious issue with osx 10.2.6

Try disabling ultrapeer. If that doesn't help, I would highly recommend downloading jum's build of LW at http://baghira.han.de/~jum/. Download the file that starts with Limewire, mount the disk image and just drag it to your harddrive. It drastically reduces CPU usage, memory usage, as well as certain problems where OS X users have had it crash when it's up for long periods of time.

THANK YOU!!!
 

Thank you so much from the bottom of my peer heart. I can once use multiple things with limewire. GREAT FIX!!!!!

Help
 

Excuse my ignorance. I downloaded the jum version as suggested above & it appears to be a Microsoft Excel binary document. What exactly do I do with it?
The OSX software available from Limewire is so PAINFULLY slow it's not worth using, as most seem to find.