Mldonkey too old? LowID?

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 15:17 +0100, Colin Brace wrote:
> On 2/6/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> 
> > USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> > rlrevell  8634  9.2  4.0  29316 17824 ?        S    Feb04 175:33 gtk-gnutella
> > rlrevell  8635  0.0  0.1  13792   540 ?        S    Feb04   0:00 DNS helper for gtk-gnutella
> >
> > 18MB physical, not bad... and it's been running nonstop for days.
> 
> Ok, I downloaded it and started it up; it has been running just under
> three hours. According to top:
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 12945 colin     16   0  206m 137m 6008 R 16.5 27.6  19:58.29 gtk-gnutella
> 
> it is currently using 206Mb, and I doubt whether I am even connected
> to the Gnutella network; I only see one "GnutellaNet" connection, and
> that to what alooks like an ersatz IP address: 0.0.0.0:20523, and
> there doesn't appear to be any traffic. Also, I don't know what you
> mean by "physical" memory; there are three kinds used by an app, no?
> Virtual, resident, and shared; for my money, the first is what counts.
> That's an program's total RAM footprint, swapped or oherwise.
> 

Resident is the important one (how much actualy physical memory used).

> For what it is worth, LimeWire works extremely well "straight from the
> box". The first time you start it up, it takes a minute or so to
> bootstrap itself into the Gnutella network and connect with four
> Ultrapeers (six if you have Pro). When you subsequently start up,
> connection is almost instantaneous. If you have an uPnP router, it
> will even configure port forwarding on that device, so it can accept
> incoming traffic. Gtk-gnutella looks very poweful, but it looks like I
> will have to RTFM to get it working.

Well, except for having to install a proprietary JVM from Sun, and
having to download it from the limewire web site instead of a simple
apt-get install...

No RTFM should be needed, it works great OOTB for me.  It operates in
leaf mode by default so you won't see any traffic.

Lee