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English => Multiplatform => Mac OSX => Topic started by: crash_master25 on June 30, 2006, 04:21:53 PM

Title: Slow
Post by: crash_master25 on June 30, 2006, 04:21:53 PM

Hi to all!

I have a problem, I use aMule on OSX 10.3.9 for G5 and in the begining works really fine, donwnload fast and all works well, but the problem starts yesterday when I open aMule, it start slow, but I can tell you that is REALLY SLOW, I can go to take a shower, sleep, wakeup, see my favorite tv show, and when I return 10 hours later, the aMule is starting to download, but if I give a click in the window of the aMule.... Ohhhh no, it put's gray and I can go to make the same things.... this is very extrange... do you know why is makeing this... because in my pc works fine...

Regards
Crash Master

Title: Re: Slow
Post by: lionel77 on June 30, 2006, 11:08:11 PM

Do you mean aMule just downloads at slow speeds or that the application itself is sluggish (e.g., takes a couple seconds to switch from one window to another)?

I guess what I am trying to say is, it would be great if you could elaborate a bit on the "but if I give a click in the window of the aMule.... Ohhhh no, it put's gray and I can go to make the same things.... this is very extrange..." part. ;)

Title: Re: Slow
Post by: crash_master25 on July 03, 2006, 02:53:40 PM

Hi!!

Yep, the problem is that the app itself turn very, very, very slow, not the download, the application itself is slow, and if i switch from amule to other application and return to the amule, all turns gray and don't respond... really slow

Regards.

Title: Re: Slow
Post by: lionel77 on July 03, 2006, 07:36:08 PM

We've been struggling with aMule's CPU hungriness for a while now (primarily on Mac OS X). If I remember correctly, the whole thing started some time after 2.0.3. Ken and I have put a lot of work into trying to figure out what the cause of aMule's resource hunger is, using profiling tools such as Shark, but to no avail so far.
Usually, it takes a couple hours or even a day until aMule max'es out the CPU and becomes slow. The main factor seems to be (as far as I can tell) the number of popular files you download.

So until this is fixed, you might want to download only a smaller number of popular files at the same time and restart aMule when the sluggishness gets too bad.

EDIT:
Oh, almost forgot, it also helps to switch to one of the windows that does not get updated (e.g., the friends window) and hide aMule, when you don't use it.

Title: Re: Slow
Post by: crash_master25 on July 04, 2006, 02:45:38 PM

Tks, but now, where are the files i need to erase, because I need to make this work fast, then I need to erase some files, where are them in the hard disk????

Regards

Title: Re: Slow
Post by: lionel77 on July 04, 2006, 07:49:15 PM

What files do you want to erase? -- Not sure I understand what you are asking here.

What you want to do is to make sure you are not downloading a lot of popular files at the same time. So if you already have a lot of files in your download list, right-click (control-click if you only have a 1-button mouse) a few files and choose "stop" to temporarily stop downloading them.

Title: Me Tooooo
Post by: dr.ananas on August 09, 2006, 06:55:25 PM

oh noo i suffer from the same problem, i have tiger and i updated from 2.0.3 to the new amule version. everything is totally laggy from the beginning and u cannot just go to the download list and erase your popular downs because it would take hours. even quitting amule is impossible, u have to shut it down via task manager.
help this is very frustrating.