Spinning BeachBall of Death in OS X 10.2.1

[mdouma46]

I'm running OS X Jaguar 10.2.1 on a G4 400 (@450) w/ 768MB RAM, 80 GB 7200 RPM HD.

Limewire version 2.6.3 is basically unusable. I can't remember if it has ever worked okay for me or not.... Limewire starts up fine, but as soon as I press the "Later" button on the "Upgrade to PRO" dialog box, performance is unusable. Something seems to be sucking up all the CPU cycles, and I don't know what it is. Everything on my machine goes in slow motion and I have the SBBOD almost constantly.

Running "top" in the terminal doesn't help at all. As soon as I press the "Later" button, the terminal stops updating every second. It basically freezes where it was and so I have no clue what amount of the CPU cycles are going to what. My guess is that virtually all are going to Limewire. Say I click on the "Connections" tab. It may take about 5 minutes for the display to finally change to the Connections tab. The incredibly annoying thing is that the animated gif ads continue looping at normal speed, and seem to be unaffected by the whole thing!

As soon as I quit Limewire, everything returns to normal speed.

I've tried running 2.5.5 and it works fine, so I'd assume it's a Limewire thing and not an Apple/Java thing...

Anyway, any ideas? I've tried deleting and reinstalling, didn't do anything. Right now I've reverted back to 2.5.5...

Thanks in advance..

I'm running Limewire 2.5.5 using OS X (10.2.1) on a 1Ghz MAc. No problems wxc ept that about 50% of my downloads load with 0 Kb sizes and a notice that the file is corrupt.

Is someone (RIAA?) spoofing with the MP3 files??

[mdouma46]

2.6.5 fixes the excessive CPU usage.

Thanks guys.

How many files are you sharing? That can make a difference on the speed of Limewire. I used to try to share a couple of thousand mp3 files and it was as slow as molasses in updating Limewire windows and button clicks and loved to show the SBBOD. This happened with various version of Limewire Pro. When I only shared about 500 files, any Limewire version worked fine. No SBBOD. Limewire is still rather slow on my G3 500 MHz Beige with OSX.1.5, but certainly useful. I really think both our machines are underpowered, but I've heard slowdown problems by people with 867 MHz G4s and a lot of RAM.