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packman
11-07-2002, 06:27 AM
I've installed LimeWire 3 times and everytime I installed and downloaded some musics, my computer started acting strange and eventually I was forced to reinstall Mandrake9.0. Sympton was same. First I noticed netscape starts freezing alot. Then XMMS starts freezing. Eventually everything start freezing. I dunno why. As far as i know, I didn't get any error messages. Now I'm too scared of installing it.... :(
mdwatts
11-07-2002, 07:44 AM
Did you follow the Limewire installation instructions exactly?

Could you please post what you did to install Limewire?

I've never installed or used Limewire myself, but perhaps another member can help.
packman
11-07-2002, 09:09 PM
yes i did follow instruction and LimeWire itself worked fine. I installed java, which is required and LimeWire. That's all. After couple of musics typical symptoms start like browser netscape and xmms that had worked just fine started freezing every minutes or so. I reinstalled Mandrake again and everything working fine now. But i'm curious why it happens everytime.
mdwatts
11-08-2002, 02:34 PM
Anyone else have Limewire working with Mandrake 9.0?

Perhaps it is a known problem with Mandrake 9.0 and Limewire.

Does Limewire have a usergroup or support site where others may have already posted about this?
LrngTheHardWay
11-08-2002, 02:40 PM
< knee-jerk response >
Sounds like a memory leak in limewire.
Any chance of running top and checking process stats?
< /knee-jerk response >
Hayl
11-08-2002, 02:42 PM
i stopped using limewire because of these types of problems.

it opens way too many processes.

check out the link ot giFT in my sig if you want a low resource excellent p2p app.
packman
11-08-2002, 03:16 PM
Now I'm using Gtk-Gnutella. It seems give me more available files than LimeWire, and it is working great so far. :)
I still dunno why it happened but... oh well i have something better workin for me. Thanks for all your helps. I appreciate it. :p
mtbtreker
11-08-2002, 04:21 PM
I gave up on limewire as well. gnutella is up adn running yielding more results for me as well.
callit
11-08-2002, 04:33 PM
I could never get limewire running in Mandrake in the first place. I installed java, but always got errors installing, so I gave up and started using GTK-gnutella too. Sounds like I'm better off anyways.