After using Gnotella for a while, or sometimes even a little bit, gnotella will stall for seconds, even minutes. Meaning, if you click something such as CLOSE (the little x) it will take a while to close..... if you click STATS, it will take a while to get to stats. I heard this is because it was programmed in visual basic 6? Is anyone else having this problem?

I have Windows 98, with a 366mhz Pentium 2 processer and 64 mb of ram. My friend has a 500mhz Pentium3 with 128mb of ram and he also has the problem.....

What is wrong?

I have this prob too.

650 MHz AMD, 128 MB Ram, Win 98SE
Sometimes when I will work at the same time in my private Network I get Blue Screens and the Computer crashed.

I have the same problem.
I have a 900 MHZ computer and I use cable.
Some days it is worse and I have to restart the computer.

Another thing is that some days I download 10 songs in a few minutes ans some days nothing. Who knows what is wrong??

Well being able to download 10 songs one day and none the next has to do with the Gnutella network itself. I dont know exactly how it works, but it is because of the network i am pretty sure.

The problem with Gnotella and the stalls and lock ups sometimes do get very bad and I need a restart. Usaually, i can just hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE to get rid of it when it goes sour like that. Does anyone know why it stalls like that?

While Gnotella does not yet have the proven track record of Napster, I've found it to be a most useful tool for file sharing. I've tried others, but really like the ease of use.

Yep, I'm sure even if you have a processor in the Gigahertz range and 256MB+ of memory (you should, with RAM prices what they are now, if not, go buy some!) you would still have the program chug along at a snails pace, or even stop responding entirely.

With so many people with such different ranges of problems, it bound to be due to the program not freeing up resources properly. With that in mind, I've found that running Gnotella ONLY and no other programs besides the essentials for system security makes the program/system a lot more stable.

The program is still being revised, of course, and I'm sure these issues will be resolved. In the mean time, the best thing we all can do is report any bugs we find to the creators of Gnotella and hope they can resolve them in the next release....

A simple way of demonstrating the program still needs work is to hit the "STOP" search button more than once, you'll notice that each time you hit it the "Searched for" info will update to the current time elapsed. A little bug, yes, but let's us know that this program is far from being perfect. Yet.