I run about 10 times the amount you saw in that screenshot. My comp has been up on XP [NT 5.1 2600] for 4 weeks without a reboot now, still has good memory usage and is responsive.

Programs dont kill a comp. Badly written programs will lock the os. Most spyware is very poorly written and has major resource leaks, so you all may want to use a program such as ad-aware. Another thing you may want to use is Clearmem -- I microsoft tool designed for NT4 [works on 2k/xp] which cleans up these resource leaks in both phys. and virtual memory.

I attached the exe to this post for all who are interested in using clearmem...

Hey, I think I was a victim of bitrot. I just had a brilliant idea today to uninstall Gnucleus, install an old version (1.7.4) and upgrade directly to 1.8.3 (I had been doing incremental upgrades). Now, I'm running 1.8.3 and it's working very well.

Thanks for all those that provided helpful replies.

ah, Zooplah, dream on....... I tried exactly the same... have had 3 crashes now after big chunks of hours and many uploads.
It IS a problem within Gnucleus, not your OS or mine.
In fact, I have done a full /unconditional format followed by a clean installation of 2000 Pro with ANOTHER /unconditional format during the install....... I have a clean registry and the problems occur, regardless. I wonder how many other users out there have tried these tests with only Diskeeper 7.0 and Gnucleus installed on their machines? No other programs, at all!
Interesting that both Gnucleus 1.8.2 and 1.8.3 and the BearShare 3 alpha and beta series have had such similar problems...... especially as of late with BS (although noises are being made that beta 53 is somehow OK now....)
For me, I am going back to Gnucleus 1.8.2, AGAIN, until the dust clears!:eek:

Ursula, I'd like to clarify that Gnucleus 1.8.3 does crash occasionally (it crashed three times yesterday), but I no longer get the Visual C++ exception dialog on startup.

Luckily, I still have a zipped up version of the 1.8.2 replacement files, so I'll probably re-downgrade again if the Gnucleus guys don't get a new version out soon.

It may be prudent not to get versions that don't have full installers. 1.74 and 1.7.5 worked fine, 1.7.7 crashed occasionally, 1.8.2 worked fine, and now 1.8.3 crashes occasionally. It may not be coinincidental that versions without installers are, to put it mildly, less than stable.

i just download gnucleaus and i got an error saying "oleacc.dll Missing" What does that mean and how do i fix it?

you guys are all wrong