|
| |||||||
| Register | FAQ | The Twelve Commandments | Members List | Calendar | Arcade | Find the Best VPN | Today's Posts | Search |
| Gnotella (Windows) Gnotella has been discontinued. We highly recommend you use an actively developed client instead. |
| Welcome To Gnutella Forums You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content, fun aspects such as the image caption contest and play in the arcade, and access many other special features after your registration and email confirmation. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! (click here) (Note: we use Yandex mail server so make sure yandex is not on your email filter or blocklist.) Confirmation emails might be found in your Junk folder, especially for Yahoo or GMail. If you have any problems with the Gnutella Forum registration process or your Gnutella Forum account login, please contact us (this is not for program use questions.) Your email address must be legitimate and verified before becoming a full member of the forums. Please be sure to disable any spam filters you may have for our website, so that email messages can reach you. Note: Any other issue with registration, etc., send a Personal Message (PM) to one of the active Administrators: Lord of the Rings or Birdy. Once registered but before posting, members MUST READ the FORUM RULES (click here) and members should include System details - help us to help you (click on blue link) in their posts if their problem relates to using the program. Whilst forum helpers are happy to help where they can, without these system details your post might be ignored. And wise to read How to create a New Thread Thank you If you are a Spammer click here. This is not a business advertising forum, all member profiles with business advertising will be banned, all their posts removed. Spamming is illegal in many countries of the world. Guests and search engines cannot view member profiles. Deutsch? Español? Français? Nederlands? Hilfe in Deutsch, Ayuda en español, Aide en français et LimeWire en français, Hulp in het Nederlands Forum Rules Support Forums Before you post to one of the specific Client Help and Support Conferences in Gnutella Client Forums please look through other threads and Stickies that may answer your questions. Most problems are not new. The Search function is most useful. Also the red Stickies have answers to the most commonly asked questions. (over 90 percent). If your problem is not resolved by a search of the forums, please take the next step and post in the appropriate forum. There are many members who will be glad to help. If you are new to the world of file sharing please do not be shy! Everyone was ‘new’ when they first started. When posting, please include details for: Your Operating System ....... Your version of your Gnutella Client (* this is important for helping solve problems) ....... Your Internet connection (56K, Cable, DSL) ....... The exact error message, if one pops up Any other relevant information that you think may help ....... Try to make your post descriptive, specific, and clear so members can quickly and efficiently help you. To aid helpers in solving download/upload problems, LimeWire and Frostwire users must specify whether they are downloading a torrent file or a file from the Gnutella network. Members need to supply these details >>> System details - help us to help you (click on blue link) Moderators There are senior members on the forums who serve as Moderators. These volunteers keep the board organized and moving. Moderators are authorized to: (in order of increasing severity) Move posts to the correct forums. Many times, members post in the wrong forum. These off-topic posts may impede the normal operation of the forum. Edit posts. Moderators will edit posts that are offensive or break any of the House Rules. Delete posts. Posts that cannot be edited to comply with the House Rules will be deleted. Restrict members. This is one of the last punishments before a member is banned. Restrictions may include placing all new posts in a moderation queue or temporarily banning the offender. Ban members. The most severe punishment. Three or more moderators or administrators must agree to the ban for this action to occur. Banning is reserved for very severe offenses and members who, after many warnings, fail to comply with the House Rules. Banning is permanent. Bans cannot be removed by the moderators and probably won't be removed by the administration. The Rules 1. Warez, copyright violation, or any other illegal activity may NOT be linked or expressed in any form. Topics discussing techniques for violating these laws and messages containing locations of web sites or other servers hosting illegal content will be silently removed. Multiple offenses will result in consequences. File names are not required to discuss your issues. If filenames are copyright then do not belong on these forums & will be edited out or post removed. Picture sample attachments in posts must not include copyright infringement. 2. Spamming and excessive advertising will not be tolerated. Commercial advertising is not allowed in any form, including using in signatures. 3. There will be no excessive use of profanity in any forum. 4. There will be no racial, ethnic, or gender based insults, or any other personal attacks. 5. Pictures may be attached to posts and signatures if they are not sexually explicit or offensive. Picture sample attachments in posts must not include copyright infringement. 6. Remember to post in the correct forum. Take your time to look at other threads and see where your post will go. If your post is placed in the wrong forum it will be moved by a moderator. There are specific Gnutella Client sections for LimeWire, Phex, FrostWire, BearShare, Gnucleus, Morpheus, and many more. Please choose the correct section for your problem. 7. If you see a post in the wrong forum or in violation of the House Rules, please contact a moderator via Private Message or the "Report this post to a moderator" link at the bottom of every post. Please do not respond directly to the member - a moderator will do what is required. 8. Any impersonation of a forum member in any mode of communication is strictly prohibited and will result in banning. 9. Multiple copies of the same post will not be tolerated. Post your question, comment, or complaint only once. There is no need to express yourself more than once. Duplicate posts will be deleted with little or no warning. Keep in mind a forum censor may temporarily automatically hold up your post, if you do not see your post, do not post again, it will be dealt with by a moderator within a reasonable time. Authors of multiple copies of same post may be dealt with by moderators within their discrete judgment at the time which may result in warning or infraction points, depending on severity as adjudged by the moderators online. 10. Posts should have descriptive topics. Vague titles such as "Help!", "Why?", and the like may not get enough attention to the contents. 11. Do not divulge anyone's personal information in the forum, not even your own. This includes e-mail addresses, IP addresses, age, house address, and any other distinguishing information. Don´t use eMail addresses in your nick. Reiterating, do not post your email address in posts. This is for your own protection. 12. Signatures may be used as long as they are not offensive or sexually explicit or used for commercial advertising. Commercial weblinks cannot be used under any circumstances and will result in an immediate ban. 13. Dual accounts are not allowed. Cannot explain this more simply. Attempts to set up dual accounts will most likely result in a banning of all forum accounts. 14. Video links may only be posted after you have a tally of two forum posts. Video link posting with less than a 2 post tally are considered as spam. Video link posting with less than a 2 post tally are considered as spam. 15. Failure to show that you have read the forum rules may result in forum rules breach infraction points or warnings awarded against you which may later total up to an automatic temporary or permanent ban. Supplying system details is a prerequisite in most cases, particularly with connection or installation issues. Violation of any of these rules will bring consequences, determined on a case-by-case basis. Thank You! Thanks for taking the time to read these forum guidelines. We hope your visit is helpful and mutually beneficial to the entire community. |
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
August 17th, 2000
| |||
| |||
 Gnotella CPU, Resource, & Memory Hog <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#551a8b" alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hello, I just installed Gnotella 0.73. I have Windows 98 (v4.10.1998) with all the updates, a 350 MHZ CPU, 192 MB memory, and 1 GB free on my C: drive. I have not had any problems with crashes or errors. <strong>There is a major problem with the installation program replacing newer system files with older ones. Please see my other post for more details.</strong> I <a href="http://forums.gnutellanews.com/Forum6/HTML/000051.html">read another thread here about CPU usage</a> and Gnotella does seem to use a lot of CPU bandwidth. But Gnotella uses more than just too much CPU power. After a fresh boot, I loaded Norton System Doctor. This gives me all my system stats. I have created a table below: <strong><font color="#990000"><font size="+1">Table GDI Resource, USER Resource, and CPU Bandwidth Usage</strong></font></font> <strong><font color="#b30000">2 Outgoing, 2 Incoming, Monitor of Searches Off</strong></font> <table border cellpadding=5 width="87%"> <tr valign="top"><td width="43%"></td> <td width="18%">GDI Free</td> <td width="18%">USER Free</td> <td width="18%">CPU Usage</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>Fresh Boot</td> <td>99%</td> <td>94%</td> <td>0%</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>MS Dialer to 'Net</td> <td>98</td> <td>92</td> <td>0</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>Gnotella Loaded</td> <td>89</td> <td>82</td> <td>59%</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>...Browser, ETC... Loaded</td> <td>67</td> <td>67</td> <td>59%</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>Word Processor Loaded</td> <td>59</td> <td>59</td> <td>59%</td></tr></table> As you can see, Gnotella uses 9% GDI Resources, 10% USER Resources, and 59% CPU bandwidth. I have been using my word processor for 3 years and it has always been the resource hog king, until now. It uses 8% GDI & 8% USER. I don't really mind Gnotella using that much GDI and USER. I can deal with it. It only means I can't run as many apps at one time and eventually have to reboot to free them up. The 59% CPU is another matter. Even with my 350 MHZ, it is using 59% and this needs to be cut down. <a href="http://forums.gnutellanews.com/Forum6/HTML/000051.html">Someone also mentioned memory usage</a>: <strong><font size="+1"><font color="#990000">Table for Physical Memory and Swap File Usage</font></font></strong> <table border cellpadding=5 width="90%"> <tr valign="top"><td width="36%">Gnotella Started</td> <td width="34%">Physical Memory Free (K)</td> <td width="28%">Swap File Usage (K)</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>Begin of Tracking Memory</td> <td>106,284</td> <td>67,472</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>After 30 Minutes</td> <td>105,012</td> <td>68,524</td></tr></table> For 30 Minutes, I did not use the computer and simply allowed Gnotella to work. After this time, my free physical memory shrank by 1,272 K bytes and my Swap file grew by 1,052 K bytes. Assuming this continues while Gnotella is running, you must have a <em><strong>huge</strong></em> amount of memory free, otherwise you will not be able to leave it running continuously. This defeats the purpose of Gnotella, since it is meant to serve as a node in an enormous network. <strong><font color="#990000">NOTE: I am still writing this review and after 1 hour 35 minutes of Gnotella usage, my CPU usage is now 99%.</font></strong> <strong><font color="#990000">Apparently, what is happening is Gnotella is keeping all of the searches it encounters from the other nodes in memory. It is then reparsing every single one of them to compare them with the new ones, probably to guard against spam attacks.</font></strong> This is the only explanation I can come up with. This part of Gnotella must be rewritten to handle stored searches and comparisons better. Guarding against spam attacks and filtering is good, but maybe there should be an option to turn this feature off. Users should have the option to simply evaluate the incoming searches, determine if anything is relevant, pass them along, then release them from memory. Finally, there should be an option that when a download takes place, Gnotella goes off the Gnutella network until it's finished. This way, all available bandwidth is available for it. Using a 56K modem is already slow. If you're on the network, it's even slower. Say you find a 6 MB MP3. Without the network, it will take 15 minutes to DL. With it, it would probably take at least 20. The uploader may not want to sit around that long and may shutdown. VB is not the best language to write a program with. Every time I encounter one in VB, it is always slow and hoggish. C++ seems to be the better language. I could not keep Gnotella in memory because it was just eating up all my memory and slowing my computer down to a crawl. If I left it running overnight, I would probably have to hit the reset button to reboot. After I shutdown Gnotella, my CPU usage went to 0% but my other resources did not seem to free up. I like the Gnutella concept. I believe it will play an important role in the future. I am going to <a href="http://gnutella.wego.com/go/wego.pages.page?groupId=116705&view=page&pageId=11 7731&folderId=117728&panelId=119597&action=view">d ownload another client</a> and try it. This time it will be written in MFC (C++). Hopefully it won't eat as many resources. To Shaun Sidwall, all Gnotella needs is a little work. Overall, it's pretty well written. You'll be happy to know I did not encounter a single IPF or illegal access error. You might want to find someone to rewrite the spam/store searches subroutine in a faster and more efficient language. <font color="#990000"><strong>Please see my other thread on improper replacement of system files.</strong></font> Subversive </body> </html> PS: As you can see, forums don't interpret HTML very well. Bummer.  [This message has been edited by Subversive (edited 08-18-2000).]  |
|
| |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| resource fork? | zumbooruk | General Mac Support | 0 | May 16th, 2002 03:41 PM |
| Resource Fork ??? | Unregistered | General Mac Support | 2 | May 9th, 2002 05:32 PM |
| Gnotella Crashing BSOD blackscreen memory leak other program not opening | Unregistered | Gnotella (Windows) | 1 | November 5th, 2001 12:41 AM |
| GUI uses too much resource | Unregistered | Support: General | 0 | September 13th, 2001 01:57 AM |
| Gnotella memory usage | onty | Gnotella (Windows) | 1 | July 11th, 2000 04:49 AM |
Linear Mode
