Well now guys, so far, so good. I just D/L 69.3 mb BMW show in a cool, crisp 37 minutes, with an average of about 290 Kb/sec. It was smooth as silk. The ram usage, with Furthur running alone never left me with less than 63 mb of free RAM out of 192 mb total on a PII400 running Win98se. When Synthesoft's kinemorphic screen saver kicked in, the free RAM only dropped to 53 mb, and jumped back up to 63 mb right after cessation of the screen saver. This is a huge improvement. Thanks. The look, feel and functionality all seem to be improved. The program responds quicker and more smoothly.
The only questionable event is that when done d/l'ing BMW1979-04-10, Furthur never made it appear in the shared section. I waited a while and closed it down and restarted Furthur, but it has not shown up in the shared section. Additionally, after being up for an hour, my two other shares, BAT1999-4-15 and JG1987-10-17 have not had a hit. Current upstream 0 Kb/sec. I know that this is dependent on whether anyone is trying to get the show or not, but it is unusual for these two shows to go this long without them trying to be grabbed. I will keep tabs on this throughout the day and see what happens. It is now an hour later, and I do have one hit on the Big Ass Truck show, but they are only receiving it a 33 Kb/sec. I could be giving as high as 128 Kb/sec. Still no Marley in the shares. Still no connection to the chat. This is not new, as I have never, ever seen another user on chat, even when I can connect. Good news is that the RAM usage is holding steady with around 59-60 mb free out of 192, even with Outlook Express, Norton Anti virus 2001, Free mem pro, a pop-up killer program, and the screen saver running in the background. Now a feature request. I d/l everything to a temp file, and then move to a more permanent location when things check out ok. This makes running BPR a whole lot easier. Why can't we have a button or command that allows a path update for the files you still want to share but no longer want taking up space in your temp d/l folder. This would allow you to move files freely around your computer, or even put them on disc and just update the path to where you moved the directory, without having to reshare the file sets and retype all of the info. Throughout the beta, this has been the only issue I have not seen addressed, and it is a big one for me, as I am always juggling hard drive space. Guys, thanks for a wonderful program, and keep up the hellacious good work. Nothing but Peace and Unity, Lapdog "Stoke the fires of paradise with coals from hell to start But never give your love my friend unto a foolish heart Unto a foolish heart." -Garcia/Hunter Barking Pig Radio-the most eclectic play list in cyberspace! http://barkingpig.cjb.net Also try our Mate Mick's, Mortimer Rocks radio at: http://www.mrdarkstar.com/ and Chris' Blackbox radio at: http://www.blackboxradio.org To be removed from the BPR announce list just reply with "please remove me" or some such. If you are on sugarmegs, just filter out messages with subject beginning BPR Today. ------------ [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ------------ The Furthur Development List Questions, Comments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cyberial.com/furthur --------------------------------------------------
