LimeWire hangs my Ubunutu

[Osama I. Dosary]

ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 09:20 +0300, Osama I. Dosary wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>After a few minutes of starting LimeWire my machine becomes very very 
>>slow. Then when I leave it for more than 20 minutes in this state, it 
>>fully hangs. Usually I get a frozen screen/keyboard/mouse.
>>
>>Machine specs: P4-3GHz, 1GB RAM, ~20GB free on partition.
>>
>>Stats before starting LimeWire:
>>
>> top - 09:07:05 up  1:10,  6 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.13
>> Tasks:  81 total,   1 running,  79 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
>> Cpu(s):  3.0% us,  0.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 96.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.3% hi,  
>>0.0% si
>> Mem:   1036504k total,  1020500k used,    16004k free,    52632k buffers
>> Swap:  3903784k total,        0k used,  3903784k free,   812164k cached
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>  7385 dosary    15   0 33020  14m 8236 S  2.7  1.4   0:04.17 gnome-terminal
>>  6177 root      15   0  157m  26m 8288 S  0.7  2.6   1:02.97 Xorg
>>  9135 dosary    17   0  2080 1048  824 R  0.3  0.1   0:03.92 top
>> ...
>>dosary at ubi:~$ free
>>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> Mem:       1036504    1020524      15980          0      52632     812164
>> -/+ buffers/cache:     155728     880776
>> Swap:      3903784          0    3903784
>>
>>dosary at ubi:~$ vmstat
>> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- 
>>----cpu----
>>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us 
>>sy id wa
>>  3  0      0  15980  52632 812164    0    0   241    31 1199   569  5  
>>1 79 15
>>
>>
>>About one minute from starting LimeWire:
>>
>> top - 09:08:50 up  1:12,  6 users,  load average: 2.19, 0.64, 0.32
>> Tasks:  84 total,   1 running,  82 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 14.6% us,  3.0% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 80.1% wa,  0.3% hi,  
>>2.0% si
>> Mem:   1036504k total,   490632k used,   545872k free,    53828k buffers
>> Swap:  3903784k total,        0k used,  3903784k free,   241296k cached
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>  9238 dosary    16   0  179m  53m  19m S  8.0  5.3   1:21.69 
>>mozilla-thunder
>>  9390 dosary    15   0  341m  57m  21m S  8.0  5.6   0:11.69 java
>>  6177 root      15   0  159m  27m 8680 S  0.7  2.7   1:04.92 Xorg
>> ...
>>
>>dosary at ubi:~$ free
>>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> Mem:       1036504     588440     448064          0      53972     324444
>>- /+ buffers/cache:     210024     826480
>>Swap:      3903784          0    3903784
>> 
>>dosary at ubi:~$ vmstat
>> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- 
>>----cpu----
>>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us 
>>sy id wa
>>  4  3      0 382084  54076 401276    0    0   288    31 1210   618  5  
>>1 76 18
>>
>>I notice that the used Swap is ZERO. How can that be, when the Java 
>>process is using 341MB of Virtual memory, with only 19MB resedent 
>>memory. VIRT = SWAP + RES (from 'top' man-page), which means that 322MB 
>>of swap must be used, so why isn't 'top' showing the swapping. ... I'm 
>>confused. And is this related to the hangs?
>>
>>Does anyone have any ideas about what is going on, or how I can fix it?
>>
>>TIA,
>>Osama
>>
>>    
>>
>Hi Osama...
>
>About your memory question, not all the process(es) appears in "top"
>because they are "threads" and not a stand alone "process".  Threads
>counts in the memory, but the are redundant, they should be counted only
>once.  This is were the confusion comes from.  Don't give it a thought.
>If you need more info about this subject, search for "Linux Threads
>Memory Count".  This is a known bug/feature of the Linux Kernel that had
>been discussed a lot.
>
>And about your problem with LimeWire, which version you're using and
>what is the version of the Java (and where did you get it)?
>  
>
java version "1.5.0_04"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_04-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_04-b05, mixed mode, sharing)

LimeWire version is 4.8.1 and got it from
http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net (of the UbuntuGuide)

Thanks,
-Osama

>Ziyad.
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>AL-Dosary for me.
>  
>
Done.