As soon as I try and run Gnotella, it spikes my CPU to %100, and stays that way until I shut it down. I've been experiencing this problem for the last two versions, and was hoping the new version (0.73) would fix it, but it hasn't.
I'd love to try out Gnotella, but it's unusably slow. Anyone else have this problem?

Yes, I'm having the same problem. Also, on mine, as soon as I start it my Unused Memory starts slowing going down to zero. After about 5 minutes mouse motion on the system lags and winamp skips uncontrollably. Give it 30 minutes and it locks up, I have to reboot.
It's not like I have a slow machine either, 500mhz with 256M memory, running Win98.

Me too. I've got win2k and I'm getting 100% CPU usage..it's insane and a real shame this problem needs to be fixed fast it seems a lot of people are experiencing it..it happened on my friends computer as well..mine is an Athlon 700 with 256megs of pc133 RAM...shouldn't be doing that.

there are plenty of gnutella clients out there. certain are more finished.. right now theres a client called gnucleus. its stable and runs the cpu at good speeds even with my 233mhz, and its all open source.

the person who makes gnotella doesnt have an obligation to fix it (fast).. they could stop making it right now. so if its not working too well for you, dont use it. its not like its a finished product. you would probably do better if you went and picked up gnucleus for right now.. and then test future versions of gnotella. Once all the problems get fixed it will most likely be the best gnutella client out there.

I too experience these problems on a fresh install of win98se.

It is perplexing to see a program that in many ways is ahead of all other clients in features only to languish with a problem that renders it unusable.

worse yet the irc channel is recommending Gnotella to newbies destorying credibility all around.

The IRC people probably haven't taken a close look at Gnotella. See my other posts. Has anyone here tried N-Tella http://www.friedcat.co.uk/ ? It's written in C++ so it should be faster.

Yep, same problem here...
I had setiathome running in the background which uses all idle time... therefore my cpu usage is always 100%. I noticed the machine was very sluggish so I shut down seti@home. The problem remained however, so I found out Gnotella was causing it... pitty... I like the program. It's just not really usable this way...

I understand that gnotella developers have enough bugs to deal with, but I would suggest giving this one a high priority. I can live with most bugs and love to test programs for bugs, but this is one that really 'bugs' me since it makes the whole computer unusable...

Except for this little one: keep up the good work guys! :-)

Just tried N-Tella... I like the change of interface from other gnutella-clones... It seems stable enough, however I can't get any downloads to come through... They get queued and are apparently requested, but then nothing... One other thing... running on 1280x1024 I'd like to resize the window but that's impossible. I know it's not easy to make good resize code but it's just way too small now...

N-Tella is a good client, but it hasn't been updated for several months.

I believe that when Gnotella starts up, it does a couple of intensive things... number one, reads your shared files in fresh, so if you have a high number, this can take a while. Also, theres a gnotella-ex.net file that runs about 247 megs on my machine... hope to god it isn't reading that in! Anyone able to confirm/refute that it does?