LimeWire 1.8 uses 99% CPU and 89 MB RAM ?!?

I just installed Limewire 1.8 on a Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. When running, it will often use between 96% and 99% of available CPU time, and permanently uses between 87 and 89 MB of RAM (according to Windows NT taskmanager).

It also has heavy harddisk activity on startup, but that stops after 2 minutes or so. But the heavy usage of CPU time and RAM remains for as long as it is running. With that amount of resource usage, it is impossible to do any other work on that PC. What can I do about it? This wasn't the case with version 1.6d.

[drbuck79]

I have the exact same problems!! I have quit using limewire because of this. I wish it would be fixed.

Buck

The easy/quick solution to this problem is add more ram and cpu power.

I've used LimeWire on 3 different machine configs, and found that my celeron 600 Mhz/512 MB were quite enough for a 6 MBit U/D wire having 24 nets running.

CPU usage weren't much over 80 %, on my dual P3 933 MHZ 512 MB you'd bare notice LimeWire was running, and on my Celeron 1100 Mhz/256 MB cpu usage hovers at about 10-20 %

The amount of ram LimeWire uses, I would suggest, depends on the number of files you are sharing and LimeWires Java VM

[drbuck79]

I have 400mhz and 320mb of ram. I understand I don't have the fastest processor in the world, but limewire should not take 100% of it. I can run Gnucleus and it takes about 3% of the processor and 4mb of ram.

It is insane that limewire takes 80% of the processor time when you have a dual P3 933 MHZ system!

I share about 1gb. Limewire takes about 5% of the processor on startup and 30mb of ram. I can live with that. However, when it runs for 24+ hours, thats when it uses almost all of the processor and 80mb of ram.

Buck

My mistake about the dual machines. It should have said it was barely noticed, cpu usage were less than 10 % at all times