Try sharing less files or downloading less things at the same time.

Went into my network connection and uninstalled the "new" TCP/IP version 6.

Resources are back to normal

I was having the exact same problem. I was running an old version of LW...it told me to upgrade my java that I was running at 1.4x....as SOON as I upgraded to JAVA 1.5 my computer slowed down to a turtle. I reasoned that it seemed like a LW <-> Java 1.5 interaction problem. So...I downgraded back to Java 1.4x and have never looked back since. I am running LW 4.8.1 with old Java 1.4x and see NO performance hits as I was seeing with JRE1.5.

Specs:
P4 2.68Ghz
512M Mem
80Gb+ free HD
Win XP Pro SP2
JRE 1.4.2_07

So...something weird with new Java is not playing well with new LW. Seems like Sun changed something without telling the rest of the world. Just my opinion.

Ken

It seems to affect particular systems in different ways. For some people, Java 1.4.2 is the most stable & effective, but for others it's the other way around & they find Java 1.5 fixes all their problems. I've noticed this over the past 6 months. It really does depend on the particular person's set up. Java 1.5 does have better functionality & options than 1.4.2

Well that has me a little concerned. We need to determine the inconsistencies. I'm sure there is a common thread. I would rather run the latest everything, but JV 1.5 is a resource pig...from what I can tell.

Thanks

Ken

Hey guys I have read everything and have the exact same problem with LimeWire slowing down my computer. One thing I did notice though is that when LimeWire starts up at the bottom left-hand corner it lets you know how many files you are sharing, and everytime I start it up it like resets and slowly builds up to my 3000+ files. While it is doing this my computer comes to a crawl, but after it is done (which is like 10 minutes later) my computer runs normal. I guess if you want it to be fast you just shouldn't share files, but that defeats the purpose of the whole P2P thing. Anyways that was just something I noticed, I wonder if any of you guys have noticed that also?

Same thing here -- slow as molasses on my system, using 100% CPU. Athlon 1.5GHz, Java 1.5, LW 4.8.1, Sygate personal firewall (configured to be transparent to limewire). Even when reduced to "below normal" priority it seems to slow other apps down (which shouldn't be possible, unless the system is swapping, which it shouldn't be, because the commit charge is 600/1024M -- yes, I have 1GB *physical* RAM in this box).

May try going down to Java 1.4.2,

It seems to have gotten worse since browsing a host the other day and adding 4-500 files to my pending downloads list (although I didn't do anything stupid, such as set it to allow that many simultaneous connections -- they're mostly showing as "need more sources" right now, since their source seems to be only intermittently available), and worse again when I went from 4.6 to 4.8.1 a couple days ago.

The number of files pending seems to make it use more CPU, not just the number in an "active" state such as downloading, waiting for busy hosts, waiting in line, connecting, or some such. This suggests a design problem -- perhaps every single pending file is associated with a periodic polling for new sources to have been discovered, rather than when a potential new source is discovered all the pending files are iterated over to see if any are on that host, or those pending files being completely inactive except when explicitly searched for, either because a search result comes in that matches one or because you selected it and hit "find sources".

I'd rather avoid cleaning them out though, in case I don't find them again and it makes the difference between eventually getting the file and never getting the file.

Well I have more than 1 GB ram but on a mac. Java is worse on the mac, but I'm still able to run other 'heavy' processing apps simultaneously. I think it makes a difference how you use LW. Only on rare occasions would I select a large number of files to downld at the same time (same reason.) But yes, having a large incomplete list will slow LW down when it is starting up b/c it atempts to connect to each one individually. So that means a longer settling down period. But I'd say at least 2/3 of the time I have incompletes start by themselves after be it 20 mins or 40 mins or longer. And that's without doing any type of search. eg: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...028#post116028

I often turn LW on & forget about it, come back an hour or 2 later & see it's downlding. Perhaps b/c I very quickly have people uplding from me, within mins of my shared files loading up (perhaps even before they've finished loading.)
What I don't do is Resume all my files. Doing that is a cpu killer & uses up a lot of resources.

I like the topic of this thread:'Windows Slowing Down' b/c it reminds me of this: Windows errors or even more heavy a topic is Microsucks

I had this "slow down" prob.

Go to Limewire>Tools>Options
In the left hand column select "speed"
Then tick the box saying "disable ultrapeer capabilities"

I did this and after like 20 seconds everything was fine. It now runs smooth and theres no overprocessing etc. etc.

Hope it works.

Dobbie

Well i have Java 1.4.2_05 installed. So that might make the difference.