LimeWire hangs my Ubunutu

[Osama I. Dosary]

ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 16:38 +0300, Osama I. Dosary wrote:
>  
>
>>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
>>
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>Okay.  I don't have a good solution, but here's what I do to run
>LimeWire:  Download the "LimeWireOther.zip" file from their official
>site <http://www.limewire.com>, extract it to a directory, and run the
>"runLime.sh" script inside the "LimeWire" directory.
>
>        unzip LimeWireOther.zip
>        cd LimeWire
>        sh runLime.sh &
>
>It did work for me without problems (though, I used it for testing and
>didn't spend a lot of time with it.  I would say I used it for about 15
>minutes).
>  
>
I did as you said, and installed the newer version from the site (4.9), 
and I ran it. In less than 3 minutes, my machine became very slugish, 
and LimeWire was close to a freeze (and IO-wait from 'top' was above 90%)

So there is something different between our machines that is causing 
this problem. But what is it?

-Osama