I just ran a side by side test of LimeWire and Bearshare to see what would happen. I opened them both at the same time, and let them run to get connections. Following are the searches, and the results returned, as well as RAM and CPU used by both. I have screenshots of the tests, if anyone cared

Client:_______LimeWire___BearShare
Searches:
**** *****________197________79 <- number of results
***** ****_______50_________1
*********____10_________0
*********___12_________1
***** *****_____138________26

RAM used:____31668_______17348
CPU used:________0_________13

Notes, LimeWires CPU usage was 0 almost all the time, but went up to 2 a couple times. Bearshare ranged from 4 to 17!, averaging about 11-13. Less ram, but goodbye CPU (this was on a 1400 mhz machine)

Also, about half of the ****** results in Bearshare were those damned ******** spam songs some of you might have seen, which I have filtered out in LimeWire (bearshare can only filter by extension), so there were really only 14 or 15 real hits for "****** ****" (was looking for **** ****)

Verdict? duh. Bearshare was even trying to maintain 2 more connections than LimeWire (12, instead of 10)

Anyone else done any of these? (I've done more than this one, and the results are always similar)

Nice work. I know someone who thinks Gnotella is somehow better. I tried it and although it has lots of options, the search results were not any better, and sometimes seemed worse. It also only lets you do three searches max at the same time.

I do notice the extra default hosts in the newer version of FreeWire, which I hope is also included in LimeWire. I seem to get better results than I ever did with previous versions.

Question: Was your test with the Pro version of LimeWire, hence no ram usage for ads? or was it AquaLime, which would have some extra usage for the skin? This is not a big deal to me really, and I think you did really nice work on AquaLime. I was just curious which versions of the clients, because it seemed to make quite a difference to my results, as stated above.

twas with aqualime, so no RAM for ads, but some extra RAM for the skin.

Fraid I don't have vanilla LimeWire for comparisons sake, but I should have mentioned that Vanille LimeWire will have less RAM usage, so the comparison falls out even more favourably for LimeWire.