I'm having a problem with Limewire pro maxing out my cpu...

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..Anyone know what my problem is? Just started happening.
XP Home SP2
AMD 3400+ 1gig RAM
Lime wire Pro

In my task manager I can watch it go up and up and up and up...
If I restart it the CPU goes down, but then slowly creeps up till 100%. I'd be thankful for any help at all.

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Hmm...same amount of help I got in the technical forum...HELP ME MOFO'S!

[Remoc]

Hey MOFO did you buy Pro from WWW.Limewire.com for 18.88 USD?? I Did and I just checked my CPU usage while downloading a movie and it goes between 3% and 9%. Might do some scans. Hope this works

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Originally Posted by Remoc

Hey MOFO did you buy Pro from WWW.Limewire.com for 18.88 USD?? I Did and I just checked my CPU usage while downloading a movie and it goes between 3% and 9%. Might do some scans. Hope this works

Yeah, I did buy it there...scanned for virus's too...cant figure this crap out. It's been fine for months. Thats how much cpu it used to use for me as well, this just started happening yesterday.

[RunningBare]

Disable UPnP and select your own port, when I started out with Limewire which I purchased from the official site I had the same problem, but disabling UPnP in the advance firewall settings of Limewire seem to do the trick.

Another tip, too many searchers and downloads can also increase cpu usage, I now limit downloads to 5 at a time, your machine is much faster than mine so I figure you could do 8 at a time, maybe.

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Originally Posted by RunningBare

Disable UPnP and select your own port, when I started out with Limewire which I purchased from the official site I had the same problem, but disabling UPnP in the advance firewall settings of Limewire seem to do the trick.

Another tip, too many searchers and downloads can also increase cpu usage, I now limit downloads to 5 at a time, your machine is much faster than mine so I figure you could do 8 at a time, maybe.

Thank you, I'm willing to bet you are right about too many downloads...I did have more running than usual, there were about 7 or 8 at one time, with another dozen or so on deck. It's funny though, I never noticed it before, and I run quite a few most times. I'll try limiting it to about 5 and disable the UPnP while downloading too see if that does the trick. Thanks RB, I'll post again later to let you know if thats my problem (to f'ing greedy!).

[RunningBare]

A couple of other things I forgot to mention, when downloading several files at once they become incredibly fragmented across your harddrive so I sugguest regular defrag, before Limewire I use to defrag once a month, now its once a week if not more.

Last thing I can think of at the moment, check that your primary harddrives DMA is turned on, for some reason it gets turned off occasionly on my computer and this increases cpu usage because it now has to transfer between memory and harddrive instead of direct memory access between the drive and memory.

[AMCarter3]

I'm having the same problem - CPU keeps maxing out. If I turn off UPnP, what port # should I use?

(MacBook Pro C2D, 2GB Ram)