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[uberscheisse]

seriously, sometimes it gets to the point where i feel like i'm running a 486 again...

anyone know?

[the saint]

CTRL ALT DELETE and see what is hogging your memory in the Processes tab

If you are running zonealarm look for vsmon. If it is huge, shut down zonealarm and restart it. But you'll have to do this every once in a while to free up memory from zonealarm.

Other than that, get more RAM...

[uberscheisse]

i did the 'processes' tab and there was nothing hogging my ram or taxing my CPU... i have 512 MB of ram, 1.2 ghz processor.

yet still, all the other programs i have running start to hang as if it is a RAM issue. as soon as i open exeem i can hear my hard drive clicking as if it's going through scandisk or something.

???

[the saint]

okay... next up is to run a malware scanner like spybot and see what nasties you've got lurking. Might be a trojan. What does a virus scan give you?

I'd stay away from Exeem for a while anyway...

[eamo]

[Demophobe]

This question is unanswerable, as there are a myriad of possibilities. There are just too many things that could be going on to even think of remote diagnoses.

Edonkey isn't a "perfect" program when it meets other programs inside a system. It's a hog, and anything less than 1GB of RAM shouldn't run it for extrended periods. Sometimes it acts strange as well. Right now, it doesn't delete the finished files in the temp folder. I have to do it manually.

Exeem is a beta....enough said.

The P2P software is demanding....it thrashes drives and pushes parts of the system very hard. Have you defragged lately? If using P2P a lot, defrag a lot.

heavy P2P use is dependant on a lot of things....hard drive speeds, amount of RAM, interaction with other software, hardware configuration. By "heavy", I mean more than a couple of songs a day. Downloading 5 or 6 movies has an incredible effect on lesser system and will slow them down to a crawl.

Bottom line, there is either something conflicting with the P2P software (a firewall, AV proggie, etc...) causing it to chug, or you need to upgrade, probably RAM first, hard drive second.

[thebum]

Exeem is a spyware/adware infested piece of $hit.

[the saint]

ahhh I shouldn't have held back... thebum is right...

but seriously, a 1.2 running with 512Mb is going to have a hard time with most stuff these days that doesn't involve simply typing or browsing web pages. Those specs were high end about 4-5(00) years ago.

Plus, you've probably got some nasties lurking somewhere if you don't have a decent firewall or run regular virus/ad/spyware scans.

Personally, if you must persist in downloading torrents, I would ditch Exeem immediately and run a spyware prog to clean up your comp afterwards. I'd then get something very simple, like Bit Tornado and stick to one or two torrents at once - and that's without doing anything else on the computer at all. Try to limit your connections in the options too so that you aren't uploading to more than a few people. Course, this will slow down the download but at least it will be workable.

Best thing is to leave it running all night every night and disconnect when you are using it during the day. Sounds like you're trying to have your cake and eat it too using the comp while dowloading...

[MixtecaMike]

One problem I had when I started using torrent was with +*&%ing Norton, it kept scanning everything that moved, and on stopping a torrent or even pausing one, the whole machine would grind to a halt while the evil Symanticman did I don't know what.

I dumped Norton and the problem has not returned.