That other guy is right -- it does preempt stuff that has a higher priority than it, on Windows XP. Funny thing is, it doesn't always. Winamp's visualizer will stutter whenever Limewire preempts Winamp; if I play a long song and give Limewire low priority, it will still stutter every so often. And strangely enough the pauses seem to come in groups of four. It will run for a bit, then will come four one-second pauses with three one-second gaps between them. After a while, this will happen again. And again. Every once in a while, it will even make the music stutter and pop -- even though the music runs at high priority!

This should not be happening. What is wrong with Limewire? Or is the VM itself the problem? This seems doubtful though, since I see these problems and use Sun's VM rather than some third-party VM of dubious trustworthiness.