To amplify what LOTR is saying you are basically making downloading of files a one shot all-or-nothing deal because LW is doing poor job of treating identical files as the same requiring you to start over. PM me and I can send you some examples of file searches that demonstrate this problem.

Shawn

hmmm been running 4.9.7 since last night with several shutdowns and restarts. I have run as an UP and Leaf.

I find I get get significantly better search results as a Leaf by a margin of 5 to 1 than as a UP.

I also run as a LAN T-3 connection setting which my bandwith supports easily, but as soon as I start LW in UP mode it eats up about 75 - 90% of my bandwith. When I start LW in Leaf mode it only uses about 20-40 of my bandwith.

While using version 4.8.1 my bandwith useage as a UP was 40 - 60% at most.

I have I aslo noticed significantly reduced download speads in 4.9.7 over previous versions. I can rarely hit 60 KB/s. I can only at most get 4 consecutive d/ls going at that speed, all of which have 10 hosts for the files in question. All the rest of the d/ls are as waiting for busy host. When one of the d/ls finish one of the previously qued d/ls will start. Odd it should do this as I haven't not had this problem with previous versions.

As previously mentioned d/ls do not automaticly restart, when restarting 4.9.7. I have to do manual searches and then if I find a host it still doesn't restart the d/l. I have to cancel the d/l in que and then select d/l from the search results, which the d/l will start from the previous point it stopped at. Odd also

Memory usage is about the same as previous version. No noticable difference.

Just my observations. BTW Java 1.5_04, LW Pro 4.9.7

bug?
 

i noticed that when i'm playing a song with lw's media player and scrolling through my list of files the song i'm listening to gets all jumbled up and starts skippin around. i checked out my resources and they shky rocket when i do this. any suggestions?

Are you limiting the bandwidth LimeWire would use? There were various improvements in the io subsystem which have made LimeWire much more efficient in transfering data. If you are not limiting the bandwidth through the internal LimeWire setting, it will very likely be consuming more than the 4.8 versions.

The problems with downloads not restarting is something we'll definitely look into.

Well I do not seem to be having the problems the others are having other than incomplete downloads not starting.But I havent been running 4.9.7 verry long either about 2 hrs. I have been able to start as many DL as I want with speeds up to 500+ while UL at unlimited running in ultrapper good search results but havent been searching for rare files either.Mem usage a little bit less than previous versions. All in all it seems to be better to me than previous versions.

Latter Grandpa

Hopefull If I did it right here are a coupple of screen shots

Question: if i change metadata in an audio file such as an mp3, does this change the sha1 hash?

I think limewire does the hash with the meta data so the sha1 is changing. GnucDNA and Raza are stripping the metadata from computing the sha1, each solution has both the ups and the downs.

I noticed after shutting LW down and then restarting that it said no firewall detected which is odd because my router is Firewalled. When I shut down and restarted multiple other times it always showed the firewall icon the Unpd was doing its job and getting around it good connections leaf mode only good UL & DL. I have not noticed any diffrence in preforemce only that no firewall detected did it possibly disable my firewall ??. If you happen to notice the snapshot in my earlier post I was not conecting through the router when that snapshot was taken

Later Grandpa

After further Investigation the firewall on my router had been disabled. Had to reset router LimeWire now showes Firewall Icon. I do not know if LW somehow rest my settings or what happend but I saw a post earlier where someone had a simular problem might be somthing that needs to be looked into. Let me know if I can help.

To illustrate my point that fabian amplified on. Today I connected as an ultrapeer and did a video search of the term "xvid" that term return 847 files. Doing the same search (xvid) three minutes later after disabling ultrapeer capabilities returned 1904 files. Folks that aint right. Why be an ultrpeer if it ruins your ability to download files???

Shawn