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.

Re: Help
 

Attempt to rename it so it ends in .dmg. You are probably using IE to download, it is truncating the name.

Hi Jum I have a question for you: would it be possible to add a magnet link in your ftp to download the newer builds? I assume you are running Lw on your 'puter, it could make faster downloads for jum users because of the download mesh and PFS... Anyway, maybe it's too much difficult for the benefits. Each time I download your build I share it and get dozens of uploads, a distributed system for the jum build would be cool nontheless.

Merci

Also, to remedy a slow OS on X with LW, go to preferences and check disable ultrapeer.

This is definitely a good idea. I will have to look for some code callable by a the command line to be able to automate the generation of magnet links.

OK, so here is my first shot at a machine generated html file that contains links (html and magnet) to the latest versions. I could not test the magnet link yet, so any feedback is welcome.

http://baghira.han.de/~jum/LimeWire.html

Allo Jum, you're hard at work! When i click on the link LW starts but in the download window it says "could not download", :( , maybe the address associated with the magnet is not valid anymore, are you on a static IP?

Edit: LW only use magnet links with an IP address associated to it or domain name.
Exemple: the Trap_Jaw link:

magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:RGIP6VBRQUSKFIEBHHOTNBV2HCHSOC FT&dn=Turner+-+My+Aeroplane+Mania.ogg&xs=http://whitedragon.dyndns.org:6346/uri-res/N2R?urn:sha1:RGIP6VBRQUSKFIEBHHOTNBV2HCHSOCFT

and yours
magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:YNRM2MPJGGYQ2EDT7INNSAKE5KH3UD MS&dn=LimeWire+Pro+3.2.1jum175+OS+X.dmg

Hmm, I have reformatted the link, does it work better now?

:) It does mon général!

Hmm...link works. That is, it brings me to limewire, but right now i'm stuck in line, position 3, hehe. It works.

it seems to work well!
 

jum's build works better with jaguar than the last several pro releases! thanks jum.:)

Hi jum--and congrats on finding the PFS bug.
the magnet worked the second time I tried (first time it found the regular LW Pro, and started that which caused the jum175 already running to quit).

If you happen to have multiple versions of the same app on your disk the one the Finder uses is a little unpredictable. If both apps have registered a magnet handler I have no clue what the Finder will use.

Yes--I was surprised too since yours was running. I'd have thought the active app would take priority. I'd installed the pro update yesterday, then moved it to the root level of the hard drive to take a look at the install.log. j175 was installed in the preferred Applications spot. I deleted the pro update.

new user
 

i had a fully functioning pc untill a few days ago. i used it to download music a lot.
that machine got kinda f-ed up. so i figured i'd give limewire a shot. i only have
a modem connection, but for the minimal amount of stuff i was doing, it worked just fine. so i uploaded limewire and made a list of music i want (only 7 songs)
and it hasnt even started one of them. it says "awaiting sources" for all of them.
and has made 0 progress. can someone give me some advice??

Read one of the many threads entitled "awaiting sources" in the other sections of the limewire forum.

Try doing your search again after the message comes up.

anther note... I'm running lw on my g-3 266 MHz computer (os x 10.1.5). the best thing for keeping if from hogging my few precious MHz (besides disabling ultrapeer) was to switch the theme from the mac OS X one to the others (3.0 +)

sure. the menu in the program window is annoying, but the simpler buttons, and colors go a long way to speeding up lw's reaction time. If I can use it, read email, listen to itunes and have my web browser open, then, I'm sure you can. :)

drake:

Download the jum verison of Limewire for OS X. It greatly reduces CPU and memory load. You can find it at http://baghira.han.de/~jum/LimeWire.html

OK, this might be a little off topic, but follows my last thread. I dl'd the jum version. when I opended the disk image, the app opens as a folder. (as if I selected "veiw package contents" from a cmm, but I didn't)

that's happened to me on a few dl's, leaving me to scrap them becuase I couldn't get my computer to run a folder. any idea's on how to fix that.

I redownloaded the dmg 3 times. :(

Let me get this right. What should happen is you dl the dmg. Then you see two items, one folder called "Limewire" and another that says to drag the folder. I think your problem was that you didn't drag the folder. You see, the jum version is built with a drag n drop install, so you have to drag the folder limewire anywhere on your harddrive to install limewire.

nope... one more step.. after I dragged the limewire folder that was next to the "drag this folder" folder to my computer... I opened it.. in it was a read me file and a foler.. in that folder was a contents folder (like one would see if one control-clicked an app and selected 'veiw package contents'..)

there was a thread on the apple sight that said wich files to delete so that finder can rebuild some preferences, but that didn't work. I've had this problem with a few dmgs in the past.

I'm guessing apple doesn't have any quick way of getting an "torn open package" taped back together.... I'm sure it has something to do with some setting or file in my system... (I had done a clean install, but still found this error to occure.) so for the time being.. I'm still on limewire w/o jum.

Then again.. I don't have any problem running limewire, checking email, browsing the web, and listening to itunes.. so I'll live :) thanks anyway

I've learned a lot p2p and limewire just by reading the posts, thanks all for the informal edumication. I'm experiencing some of the same problems others have reported: lost connections, slow cpu, etc. Everything works great when I start LW, then over the course of about an hour I guess I lose my connection to outgoing hosts. I'm uploading to others just fine, but it gets frustrating not being able to search.

I've heard everyone raving about jum's builds that I dl'd version 195. I dragged the LW folder to the HD I operate LW from (I kept one HD for my OS, and bought another for file storage, apps, etc). How do I know if I'm using the jum version correctly, or at all? I found a LW file in the folder, but when I doubleclick I get a "unable to open" message or something to that effect. I'm not ready to give up on LW just yet, I just need a little more guidance. Any help would be appreciated, and thanks in advance.

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B&W G3/350, 512MB, MacOS 10.1.5, DSL, currently using LW 3.3.5 Pro as a leaf

The build I have been doing will probably only work for Mac OS X 10.2 and up. Sorry, but I do not keep older versions of the OS around.