hi there,

to me it seems the messages/number of hosts isn't the thing. for me it made a biiiig difference to reduce the number of files i share. with about 1k filed (10 gigs), gnotella stopped working after 30secs-1min. having reduced this to 10 (6 gigs) made it run for a long time. it still hangs from time to time and i am still investigating. but this really was a thing. also i read to uncheck the "search full path" option would make a difference.

hope this helps. at least something more to experiment with.