ZoneAlarm incompatibilty
 

If you use ZoneAlarm and find your system resources getting burned up fast when you launch Xolox, try shutting of ZoneAlarm. This solved the problem for me.

I have asked Zone Labs to investigate, but no response yet...

Yea, I had the same problem. When I had Zone Alarm up, my system died, but when I shut down Zone Alarm, it works near perfect now.

I don´t agree ZA and xolox are working together without problems!

Morgwen

I'm also using zone alarm... my system works fine... no glitches, hiccups or violent reactions... and my system is not a top of the line hyperfast monster... I'm just worried if I'm able to share my files correctly.... since I installed XoloX..."zonealarm" has been blocking an average of 500 accesses a day... up from my previos average of 200 blocks within a 24hr period.

blocked traffic
 

Whenever you disconnect from the network, you just dissapear, but your IP is still in people's host caches and query hits that were sent out may still be on someone's display. All this means that even after you are gone, people will try to connect to you for a while, and try to request files, even though you're not connected ot the network.

Re: blocked traffic
 

Not only...

ZA is alerting me every few seconds during I am "connected", caused by mistakes or portscans etc. - this is "normal" for the gnet!

Sometimes I have more than 1000 alerts...

Morgwen

no problem here
 

I have ZA, and I have not problem

ZAP gets confused now and again.
 

I use ZA Pro on a win2k pro box and only have problems once in a while. Not in the resource area tho, I seemed to have escaped that little malfunction. ZAP seems to get confused as to what should and should not be allowed to happen every now and again.

Xolox is not the only app that gets hit, Front Page 2002, Outlook 2002, Dreamweaver, Opera....ect. Everything can be going great, then WHAM, ZAP stops allowing connections to and from. Same thing happens on another box with pretty much the same set up except for 98SE vs Win2KP.

Don't really know why, I just shut down and restart ZAP and everything is back to the way it should be. The only time this gets to be a headache is during the night time dl's and ul's. I'll forget to shut down ZAP and go to bed waking up to a bunch of 1% complete files.

And don't expect Zlabs to be to forthcoming with suggestions or help with this. Last time (and there are 2 reasons I call it the "last time") I called Zlabs with a problem (I actually paid for my copy) I had to talk to someone that was saying "Thank you, drive through." and "you want; uhh, fries or somethin with that?" the week before.

Re: ZAP gets confused now and again.
 

Hello!

When ZA ask you if you want to allow the program to connect...
just check the option "remenber..." next time ZA will not ask!

You can change it in the ZA program, too (under programs!).

Morgwen

ZAP Permissions
 

Yep, been dere done dat. Checked all the doh! factor stuff.

When I wrote "Everything can be going great, then WHAM, ZAP stops allowing connections to and from" thats just it. ZAP just stops things from happening. I'll be publishing my my stuff left and right, then without doing anything different....full stop. I'll have Outlook up and running checking mail automatically, 3 - 4 hours later:

Task 'Work (Outgoing Only) - Sending and Receiving' reported error (0x800CCC0D) : 'Unable to find the e-mail server. Please verify the server information in your account properties.'

Check ye 'ole ZAP alert icon and wow it's flashing letting me know that Outlook was prevented from connecting to the server. Sometimes I get the 'Temporarily' not allowed sometimes the 'Prevented' mesage.

Same thing with Frontpage, IRC Clients, FTP Stuff, and Xolox; running fine and doing thier thing for hours on end, then nuthin.

I'm sure it's one of the services/processes I have running (just haven't taken the time to isolate it) since I have yet to hear about these symptoms from anyone else.

One day I'll get sick of it and do the ole process 'o elimination, but till the lazy gene gose back into remission I'll live with it.

Hi!

May be a re-installation of ZAP helps...

Never had these problems...

Morgwen

I have a strange ZA problem, it tells me that the number of MB being downloaded is huge and a lot faster than the available bandwidth. But on the xolox transfers screen there is rarely any activity.

So ZA tells me Ive uploaded around 900Mb via xolox and it's telling me noone is doing anything?

Zone alarm does slow resources.
 

I have no Idea why it does that...Reading these post I just shut zone alarm off to see if it really is zone alarm doing it. Everything is going smooth right now. But I have a 800MHz computer and a 350 Mhz computer and they both did the low resource thing. Both computers had a 300+ RAM so I know it is the program. Anyway hope that helps with your troubleshooting of (Programmers of XoloX) fixing this annoying bug.

Hi,

Gnutella clients have a lot of search traffic!

900Mb? One day, one week or one month?

Its more than a day - no panic!

If its only one day... this is a lot for search traffic!

Morgwen

I had the same problem with xolox freezing up, using all the system resources. I installed it and could never get it to work.
I have a 300 Mhz and 64 MB RAM with Zonealarm - so low power PC.

I uninstalled xolox and reinstalled it in a separate partition of my
hard drive (luckily (or not) my hard drive recently crashed and I had to install a new one). In that partition I also put my MP3s etc - all files to be shared. So the partiton only has xolox and files to be shared. I started sharing limited numbers of files, and am incresing the number. Zonealarm is still active and I have been able to download music at over 200 kb/sec (cable). I think the secret is keeping xolox away from all other files on the hardrive that are not going to be shared.

Hi!

It doesn´t matter where you save your files...

Do you use Wi*** or Win98 (I think so!), when this is no problem of xolox its a windows problem!

I used Win98se with a 500Mhz and 64Mb ram, and least three times a day I have to reboot my system...

I suggest you at least 128Mb ram with windows... (ram is very cheap actually!).

Morgwen

sent/received
 

iv been downloading now for a +30 hours one big file trough XoloX. my ZA indicates ~4000MB sent and ~1000MB received. im not sharing any files at the moment (yea yea, im on 128ISDN :) also theres been almost 400 hits to ZA's "internet alerts", since i started XoloX.

at the same time ISDN indicates ~1G sent, 1G received.

and btw. now download has jumped from 96% to 64%... what the hell that means??

normal behavior?? looks like LOTS of sent files in ZA??

XoloX always shares your /download directory and anyone else with XoloX can grab segments of files you are currently downloading. So if you have downloaded files, or are downloading files, then you are sharing. Some of your upload traffic may also be from sending XoloX updates out to members who got the program from download.com, as 1.12 isn't there yet if I remember corrently. (1.11 instead)

To see what you are uploading make sure to check "My uploads visible" in the tools menu and sit around staring at the downloads page... as any uploads that finish dissapear right away from the list, and no logs are kept as to what's been sent.