Im running LimeWire on a 1200Mhz AMD, 768MB ram, 1.5MB cable and I am trying to share more files.. I cant seem to share more than 3000 files.. im not sure if its Lime or my Sun VM.. Does anyone else have the same problem.. I would like to be sharing 10 to 15K files. I am also getting general GUI unresponsiveness with low CPU utilization.

The problem is, that 10k to 15k of files may very well contain 15k-30k keywords to be saved that could be searched for with complete substring matching. Not even google.com does substring matching. With 30k keywords, you will easily receive a few hundred search queries per minute and matching each search query against a 30k keywords is very cpu intensive.

As far as I can tell, LimeWire's search algorithm is already pretty optimized. And it won't be easy to increase performance so you can easily share your 15k files.

I also use Bearshare and I can share my full library without problems. I *beleive* that Bearshare also does substring matching.. Also with LimeWire, CPU and bandwidth are NOT an issue. I was thinking it was the JRE's fault.. I am running Suns 1.3.1_01

Is it possible to have a preference to turn off substring searches and only search a list of whole words for larger libraries?

Or maybe even write native C code in a .dll or .so file to maximize the efficiency?