LimeWire hangs my Ubunutu

[Osama I. Dosary]

ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 23:44 +0300, Osama I. Dosary wrote:
>  
>
>>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
>>
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>I really don't know!  Here's my configurations:
>      * Ubuntu Hoary (with latest updates)
>      * 1GiB RAM, AMD Sempron 2200+, NVIDIA GeForce 5700 with NVIDIA's
>        binary drivers 1280x1024 at 60Hz 32bit colors, "linux-image-k7"
>        kernel
>      * Sun Java 1.5.1 (update 03)  (I used the instructions here¹ to
>        create this package myself.  Follow the instructions on how to
>        build the package yourself, not the one about adding new
>        repositories to your "/etc/apt/sources.list".)
>      * LimeWire version 4.9.X from <http://www.limewire.com> (at the
>        time, it was "Beta" and yet to be released as "Stable".)
>
>Try creating the Java package yourself.  If you don't want to, or failed
>to, just ask me and I'll send to you (about 63MiB in size).
>
>Osama, one last thing:  I noticed you're using a virtual IP (10.0.0.47).
>This might have to do with your problem.  (Check port forwarding, DNS,
>and your system's revers-lookup address as this have a heavy influence
>on how LimeWire acts.)
>Ziyad.
>
>Links:
>     1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Java15
>  
>
I used the steps in that page to downgrade the jre to 1.4.
As soon as I started LimeWire the machine became slow, and the IO-wait 
(top 'wa') jumped up. So it seems that the problem is not the jre.

But I'll keep testing it to see if it also hangs my machine.

Thank Ziyad,
-Osama