I never tried to share 50,000 files with LimeWire but I can imagine that it would take at least 50MB just to share them, - a lot more if they are mp3s since LimeWire would try to read their mp3 tags. LimeWire really hasn't been designed to share that many files (although I think it will work, if your machine has enough RAM ).

gtk-gnutella's Raphael claims that his program is able to share 100k files and that he does so regularly to test it's limits. gtk-gnutella is certainly much faster than the bloated qtella (solid c versus c++/qt). - So I would try that.

As far as mutella is concerned - that damn thing will requery every every 60 seconds. So if you have 10,000 mutella peers with one running query as your network horizon , sending a ~ 60 bytes query every 60 seconds it amounts to about 10kbytes/s for each peer (not counting duplicate queries) just to forward those damn queries without even transmitting a single reply packet. In my opinion the developer deserves a good beating for that.

It's even worse than Xolox, although that really brings the network down because of its market share.

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