A problem with Limewire’s performance lately

xena400 · #1 (**permalink**) February 22nd, 2008

I've been noticing since Limewire 4.12.10, it sucks up cpu speed like a hungry person at a "All you can eat" place as strange as that might sound. When Limewire, either 4.12.10 or 4.16.6 is working, Limewire makes the computer work very slow. When you have three other programs working besides Limewire, the computer runs even slower. May I also mention when the Limewire window is closed or minimized, the download progress bar seems to freeze? When I bring the window back up the download progress bar quickly adjusts itself and finally "Verifies the download." Is there any reason for this or is there just a bug in Limewire 4.12.10 and 4.16.6?

wes6716 · #2 (**permalink**) February 23rd, 2008

You and I are in the same boat. Limewire is a HUGE CPU pig. Would be great if you could forward any info if someone replies with a solution. I am going to post the the tech support forum and hopefully there is a solution.

xena400 · #3 (**permalink**) February 23rd, 2008

Sure, no problem, I would be happy to send the info to you, or you can just check back here. Let me know if you find the solution to this problem too (Like the place where you find the info on the tech support thread.)

Xcom46 · #4 (**permalink**) February 23rd, 2008

Do an upgrade to 4.16 it has a tick that will help with that problem.Thats the best thing i can tell you.

xena400 · #5 (**permalink**) February 25th, 2008

4.16.10 is the version that has the problem. 4.12.10 shows better performance than 4.16.10. 4.12.10 doesn't jam the downloads up when the window is closed. I might just downgrade to 4.12.10 and use that until Limewire gets the bugs in 4.16.10 fixed.

Xcom46 · #6 (**permalink**) February 25th, 2008

4.16 will not take all of the CPU.I have been useing for the last month.it is only useing 10% of my Cpu when it is runing.All you have too do is go to Tools>Options>Advanced>Performance.And Tick the Disable TLS Capabilities.

xena400 · #7 (**permalink**) February 25th, 2008

Much better. Thank you for the advice. It's amazing what a simple check on something can do.

The only thing now is to find out why Limewire is using so much memory. It's using an average of 67,300 k (67mb) worth of memory. I saw this when I brought the task manager up to see how much memory it was using. Could this be a simple temporary crash or glitch somewhere or is it nothing to worry about like a simple exit out and restart the program to balance the memory usage out?

Xcom46 · #8 (**permalink**) February 25th, 2008

Mine use's a average of 63,000Mb.Nothing to worry about if you need more ram just get some how much you runing with.If you dont no.Here is how you find out.Go to.
My Computer>Right click below all of your devices than click properties and it will tell you at the bottom.If you need to no where to get some ram i can tell where to get some.

xena400 · #9 (**permalink**) February 25th, 2008

Oh, I thought 64mb and above was a high usage rate. I've seen the earlier versions of Limewire run on about 10mb-20mb at the highest.

I'm have 512mb worth of memory with a 3.7ghz Intel Celeron.