Im having memory problems myself with LW. Never had them before with it only in the past 2 versions of LW. Dont suppose theres anyway of stopping LW from taking up so much memory as its slowing down other operations on the computer to a crawl. I have 640mb of ram which is i think the most i can get for my g3 imac 500 se.

Over the short term (several hours), you shouldn't notice much of a memory problem. 640 MB is more than adequate.

Try shutting the machine down for a few minutes after several hours of running LW fi everything seems to be lagging and see if the problem goes away after the restart.

If the problem persisits, it's something else besides the VM problem.

Its only when im actually running limewire that everything slows down every other application on my computer(and theres a lot!!!) works fine wit nothing slowing down etc. Its a real pain as it means i cant use limewire anymore as it keeps crashing as well

When you didn't reply to the other post, I figured you'd solved the problem.

Good luck figuring this one out. Read the OS X stickies, and good luck.

I think your model can handle up to 1 GB of ram. But, HDD space is also an issue. Since most memory required for LW requires VM space, you need plenty of available HDD space.

Have you considered Tip: Purge the Downloads Queue!

There's lots of other suggestions already discussed on the forums & Stief is on the ball there. Check all the Stickies & search the forum using the search button to find your other alternatives.

Memory problems, I have them everyday until after breakfast. lol

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It could be to do with hard drive space. At the moment ive only about 13gb free because of quite a few large photoshop files. But ive never had that much room anyway on average it would have been about 15gb tops what with apps and other files. the computer only came with 30gb. ive been using limewire for about a year now. i thought i saw what the problem might be from one of the stickies as was suggested, it had said about downloading the latest security update which i hadnt bothered with before because i got the latest java 1.4.2 update 2 for os 10.3.9. Anyway i downloaded the security update with the latest quicktime as well but still the same problem im afraid. it tends to crash about once or twice when im downloading. the most i would be downloading would be about 5 or 6 files tops, even if im just downloading one file it crashes, and i dont tend to keep files in either the incomplete folder or the shared folder due to lack of space on the computer.

Anybody know where i can ***download*** an external hard drive