mac-users: please respond
 

Is there anybody outthere who can really work with Limewire on the mac?
Anybody on the mac really happy with Limewire?

I am a bit angry now, because I got really no chance of using Limewire properly.
All the time these FREEZES.....arrggghhh...... they make the whole computer sleep for a minute, then it keeps going for some minutes, then there´s the next freeze...

Versions 1.4, 1.5, 1.6....(it was always the same)

I stop here using it, and hope that other things will come for the mac.

i think if Limewire works, it´s really great, but the way it is here it´s pure pain...

mikropu

Do you have a low amount of memory or a slow cpu?
Do you limit the memory for LimeWire application? It needs unlimited (~40 meg on Mac).

It use to die when taking a large number of incoming connections but we block that now.

-greg

GBildson, thanks for jumping in ;)

Okay, the facts:
I am on a G4 400, with 448MB RAM, OS 9.1, and tried LW with different memory-changes.

What is this reason for those terrible freezes? Is it Java?
I really wonder, since I truely belive that my G4 should be capable running LW.

You know, it really works very fine IF it works, but those freezes make you scream....
They come to often, and they block the whole computer....
:(

any suggestions?
mikropu

I'll see if our Mac folks have seen this before.

Are you doing huge searches? If you do big searches then I have seen the Mac freeze up while it processes all the results before (which is why we cap the Mac results at 1000). Mac has bad threading for Java. It works much better with OSX given that OSX has true multi-tasking.

-greg

I allocated 40MB now - and yes, you were right greg: It runs much better now, and the freezes are less now, and when they come they´re shorter than before. So thanks for the memory-tip greg ;)

But why is LW´s standard setting just 2MB then, when I am supposed to give it much more memory?
(Would be good to have such info´s in a readme-file)



>Mac has bad threading for Java

Yes, that´s what I always thought, even before Limewire came along. :(

One more question:
Let´s say there are several same files as search-results. When I now want to download this file once, I used to select more of one of them, in the hope that ONE of them will be downloaded.
Now, since 1.5, this isn´t possible anymore
("You are already downloading a file with this name" or so it says)

I suppose this makes sense , but which one?

thanks again for answering greg :)

mikropu

I have the same problem, it was fixed after reinstalling 1.4b. but i deleted it to install 1.6. then EVERY time i try to install 1.6, it locks up when installin 'swing.jar' i feel there is a majopr problem with that file. i run a beige g3 233, 128 mb ram. it was working, now it doesnt. help please

system requirement?
 

Does Limewire 1.6 require System 9 on a Mac? It won't run on my G3 with MRJ 2.2.5 and System 8.6

I'd have to say I'm pretty happy with LimeWire. It's a very efficient, useful Gnutella servent with (most importantly) an intuitive, clean interface. I've not really had any major problems getting what I want with it.

Limewire sucks my MacBalls for a living.

I've been using Limewire for about a month on a G4 350mg (pci) I had almost no problems with it. Since I went to 1.6 I've had a few problems with the options, and the success rate for uploads went from about 60% in 1.4 to 10% in 1.6. But all in all I've been very happy with it. (A few times it refuses to quit and give me back my computer without a restart, but I'd just have to go back to work anyway) And like a lot of other Mac users I am grateful the developers of Limewire acknowledged us at all. And as is mentioned elsewhere in this thread, OSX should make us lose our dread of the words "Java-based" Thanks!