Mldonkey too old? LowID?

[Colin Brace]

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.

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.

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  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam