Limewire Consumes All Cpu Resources
 

Running limeware off a cable modem, win xp pro, 512 meg 'o ram, 80 g/b hard drive. (over 1 gig in virtual storage)

Limewire basically works fine - BUT it degrades my system, so much so, I can't run anything else -- I can't browse, or do irc, mail, aim. etc.

I throttled back the bandwidth to 20K. That didn't seem to help. It's just a resource hog.

When I kill limewire, everything returns to normal. Could it somehow be fighting my screensaver? (seti/boinc). Maybe they don't co-exist.

I don't mind sharing, but not at the expense of sacrificing my machine.

Are there any variants that don't do this? I tried bearshare, up until the point my antispyware programme went berzerk.

Wayno

Easy fix put in another 512meg's of ram 512 is the minimum required for XP. Then if you add Antivirus/Spyware detectors/LimeWire they all eat up resources.

Hmm well I have plenty of free ram - I don't think that's the problem. Yes I have spyware and av software running but it consumes less then 3% resources -- they basically only run if I download or do email. Which I can assure you, is NOT 100% of the time.

I also unfortunately, do not have an unlimited budget -- I'll just nuke it for now, and move on......

thanks

Wayno

Re: Limewire Consumes All Cpu Resources
 

I had this problem, for me it was the UDnP that caused the problem, I disabled it and set my own port, you will find this option in Tools/Options/Advanced/Firewall config, I set it to the same as the Listening port and it all works fine now, remember to give Limewire time to settle after you "restart" it with the new configuration.

Let me make sure I got this -- so you

1. set the listening port to 24337

2. set the Upnp Manual Port Forward to 24337 as well

3. opened the port 24337 in the router for tcp traffic.

Is that correct? at least that's how I understood it.

I'll give it a try and we'll see if it works.

Many thanks

Wayno

Re: Re: Limewire Consumes All Cpu Resources
 

Dude --

That totally works! That fixed it. Seems to run much better, and doesn't hog the machine. I am going to let it run overnight for a good test, but this seems to be a good fix. Thank you!

Wayno

Glad to see there is a solution what modem and router are you using. Also what Network Adapter and driver for the adapter are you using.

I am using a Motorola Surfboard 5120, and d-link 604 router.
The nic is part of my motherboard an asus a7v880 (it is a marvel yukon 88e8001) -- using a marvel driver dated 9/19/2005 v 8.41.13 (latest).

Wayno

Thanks for letting us know but the driver you are using has a bug the first two link's below is about the bug the third is when I finally figured it out.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=50743

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=51740

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=52267

I've never noticed connection problems on this end ever --but I could update the driver -- The link in you post does NOT work, so I'd have to schlepp around.

OTOH if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I might d/l about 1-2 songs/week max, never 10 at a time! Maybe why I've never seen the bug.

Wayno