It is absolutely essential that leaves be limited to acquiring no more than 3 Ultrapeers.

BearShare 4.0.0 unfortunately ships with the maximum set to 10. Although I didn't realize it at the time, this puts an unbelievable burden on the network and creates a massive shortage of leaf slots.

Thank god Morpheus Ultrapeers are under-utilized, and our Hosts View is hidden from sight by default.

We will be correcting this defect ASAP.

On a related note, it really is beneficial to the network to allow as many leaves as possible per Ultrapeers. This allows queries to do more work at each step, and shields leaves from the bulk of traffic.

It is also very important to make sure that Wi*** and Win98 systems NEVER become Ultrapeers.

Additionally, Ultrapeers should meet certain minimum bandwidth, CPU, and memory requirements as well.