In an attempt to get a little more legitimate content on the Gnutella network (I fear without enough network providers will habitually block it), I put up a host running limewire latest (2.9.11) to serve out a collection of approx 10000 well-named fine art images of 100-200K each.

On startup CPU usage builds up to 100% after about 30 mins, at which point network activity begins to drop off. The application then typically crashes after a further hour in this state. The isn't box isn't particularly powerful (2x450MHz PII, 384MB, Win2K). Disk activity is minimal, no paging or thrashing.

Would I be right in thinking that the load (and subsequent problem) is the result of incoming searches ? If so, are there recommendations for how many files a single LimeWire instance should server out ? Or is it simply the case that the software has never been tuned for larger collections of smaller files ?

Any assistance appreciated.