>From: Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: [newbie]LimeWire
>Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 01:02:09 +0000
>
>On Mon, 21 May 2001 12:41, Lanman wrote:
> > On Monday 21 May 2001 7:12, you wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 May 2001 03:00, Marcia Waller wrote:
> > > > Dear All, Thank you for all of your instructions for Limewire.
> > > > Obviously I have to get the Java installed first. Where do I get
> > > > this? How can I check to see if I already have it? Also, could
> > > > someone give me and example of what a class path is? Thanks for
> > > > your help. Marcia
> > >
> > > Marcia, get it from here:
> > >
> > > http://www.javasoft.com/j2se/1.3/download-linux.html
> > >
> > > With the Sun JDK, you don't need to set a CLASSPATH usually. The
> > > command line for phex is:
> > >
> > > java -jar phex.jar
> > >
> > > which gives you an implicit CLASSPATH containing the Java runtime
> > > jar and the phex jar., which is all you need. I forget how
> > > LimeWire does it. For everything there is to know about CLASSPATH,
> > > see:
> > >
> > > http://www.javasoft.com/j2se/1.3/docs/tooldocs/solaris/classpath.h
> > >tml
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > Quick question here,...What is LimeWire ??
>
>LimeWire is a Java-based Gnutella client, available at
>http://www.limewire.com.
>
>Now a question of my own. Being Java based, LimeWire should be
>expected to be quite slow and memory-hungry compared to a native
>GNU/Linux app. I have found LimeWire to be a *huge* resource hog,
>eating up all of my RAM (all of 256MB) and most of my CPU cycles (I
>have a Pentium II-350, which shouldn't be that slow at all). I have
>run LimeWire in both its static (with Java built in) and dynamic
>(using IBM's Java 2) forms, and it is a hog both ways. Phex (another
>Java Gnutella app) suffers from the same problem as well. Is there any
>way to limit the system resource usage of a Java application? The way
>things are now, my system is too slow to be really usable when
>LimeWire or Phex is running. Are there any functional pure-Linux GUI
>alternatives?
This is wierd to me i am running Limewire (java) on a dual pentium pro 200
with 512meg of ram and when i look at free i have 398meg free?
brandon caudle
>
>--
>Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
> LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
>
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