hey kry,
oups, sorry to not have mentioned that basic fact. when i posted, i started it, didn't even try to do something there.
well, i'm pretty dissapointed. i don't know if my mind plays tricks on me, but i can remember that somebody already wrote that. enough blabla:
amule starts pretty nice, although the binary is much to big in size with 45,5 mb in the mac build. isn't it? anyway, i can connect servers, i can download serverlists, i get high ids, search is ok, preferences are usable, gui works perfect on my mac. but... 8o
the thing is unusable, because it hangs every few seconds. i used top to view my system load. emule useses about 4% on my g3/800-cpu, very nice. but when it hangs, it drops down to 0%. on my mac, this looks like this: you start using the client, everything reacts as expected. then, suddenly after those few seconds, you see the typical spinning wheel indicating, that the application doesn't respond... if you own a mac, you know, which one i mean, the rainbowcolour-one...

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the problem is, that the app is not responding. you cant move the window, use menues or the gui etc. but what makes me mad is that it drops it's connections while spinning the wheel... ;( everytime... every so and so seconds... baaah!
i'd really like to help you finding the problem, because i assume you don't have a mac. what can i do? do you need anything specific?
thx for the great work anyway! i'll try to go through the settings and see, if anything specific triggers the "delays".