KazaaLite 100% Cpu Usage!!

[Hernie]

I get spikes in my cpu usage (100%) for 20 seconds then back to 10-20% for about 40 seconds only when running KazaaLite. Anyone else have this happen? Is it a virus, spyware, or what? I have scanned with NAV with latest definitions but found nothing. I am running XP on a new p4 2.53 with 512mb. Suggestions anyone?

-Hernie

[zezidud]

I have the same problem. It happened first with the full version of Kazaa, and is now starting to happen again with Kazaalite. I just posted a new thread about it but it hasn't appeared yet.

I am using a Toshiba Satellite 5005-S504 with 512MB RAM, 1.1 Ghz processor, 30GB drive. I'm hooked in through a cable connection on my local network. I am using Zone Alarm, Macafee, and Norton Anti-Virus.

Kazaa starts using up more an more CPU, unitl it gets to the point where even screen updates happen only once per minute and Kazaa is using 90-98% of CPU.

I like Kazaalite, but if there is no resolution for this I'm outta here..
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[Hernie]

Here is a breakdown of my system:

O/S: Windows XP Home SP1
Motherboard: SY-P4X400 DRAGON Ultra Platinum Edition
Processor: P4 2.53
Ram: Munchkin 512mb PC3200
Drive1: Lite-On DVD Rom
Drive2: Lite-On 48x12x48 CDRW
Video: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Sound: Audigy Gamer

The spiking cpu usage with KazaaLite 2.0 happens whenever it is open, regardless of what programs are running. I restarted without any startup apps loading and it still occurs.

[Hernie]

Here are the processess running in the picture below. I have only Norton AV running with Kazaalite. By the way, this happens regardless of Norton AV running or not (I have tried both).

[manu323323]

I never had a problem like that.
Tough, i'm using an amd 1800+ with 256 mb ddram ibm 80gb and i always got kazaa, winmx,
winamp,internet explorer,etc. open.
I do ALOT of things at the same time you see.

[TC75580]

It will happen if you have a thousand or more files and you click on my kazaa, that happens to me, and I'm sharing over 10k files, so it takes a minute or two for it to settle down :mellow

[Caitlyn Marble]

Originally posted by Dealie
Not to sound rude.. But it will anyways.


Its obvious you dont have a clue what you are doing on the computer.

You are running crap software and expecting it to run perfectly.

XP, Norton, Mcaffee

And zonealarm. You should never have a firewall up while using kazaa lite. Your sources are effectively cut in HALF.

Kazaalite takes about 20% of your cpu at 1ghz. Anything over that is NOT kazaa lite doing it. Its all that other crap you have loaded and running all the time. Get rid of it or get used to it.

And personally i find norton and mcaffee products are worse than having a virus.

hmmm, I dont' have XP, norton, mcaffee, but I do have zonealarm. But when I disable/turnoff/kill it so it doesn't use up the CPU kazaa lite drains my sys anyway.

though its worse if you're using plain kazaa. then the spyware makes it worse.

[MoonMan]

Norton (or any virus scanner for that matter), zone alarm, etc are big resource hogs.

[zezidud]

Originally posted by Dealie
Not to sound rude.. But it will anyways.


Its obvious you dont have a clue what you are doing on the computer.

You are running crap software and expecting it to run perfectly.

XP, Norton, Mcaffee

And zonealarm. You should never have a firewall up while using kazaa lite. Your sources are effectively cut in HALF.

Kazaalite takes about 20% of your cpu at 1ghz. Anything over that is NOT kazaa lite doing it. Its all that other crap you have loaded and running all the time. Get rid of it or get used to it.

And personally i find norton and mcaffee products are worse than having a virus.


You may be right that I'm using too much protection with both Mcafee and Norton (I'm new to file sharing and paranoid about viruses), but Kazaa is hogging cpu, not the other programs, as reported by task manager. Also, there is no earthly reason why KaZaa should use even 20%, especially when it isn't doing anything. It goes up to high-hog mode even when there are no downloads or uploads occurring. And if you prefer viurses to protection, you are probably uploading viruses to the rest of us.

[Hernie]

Thanks everyone for responding to my thread. And thanks TC75580 for pointing out that sharing lots of files spikes your cpu usage. I was sharing about 10k files. When I took out all but 100 files, the cpu usage after a brief initial spike leveled off at about 7% cpu usage. This is kinda shitty that I can't share lots of files without giving up my cpu!

My cpu usage continues to spike every 40 seconds and stays at 100% for 20 seconds when I share lots (10k) files. Any thoughts on how to still share lots of files and not have the continuous spikes? If not I'm afraid I'll have to share less and use the participation hack...

[The Hunter]

:mellow I dont know if this will help, but I had norton anti installed,and also installed AVG to see how it worked. The interesting thing was that even norton shut down I had a conflict.
When I uninstalled either one the problem was gone.

[The Hunter]

:shy Dealie you are quite right, I had kazaa running on this piece of sh** of a comp, and had no problems. This not a great machine, a old 950 celleron, 384 meg of ram, but it was not a store built machine with all their garbage on it. When you buy ram be careful a lot of the stuff on sale are seconds. Also a awful lot of the ones in store bought systems are bad also. Put any pressure on the weakest link in the system and you will find out real fast.

[CCSDUDE]

Dealie
File Sharing Newbie

Registered: Oct 2002
Location:
Posts: 9
Not to sound rude.. But it will anyways.


Its obvious you dont have a clue what you are doing on the computer.

You are running crap software and expecting it to run perfectly.

XP, Norton, Mcaffee

And zonealarm. You should never have a firewall up while using kazaa lite. Your sources are effectively cut in HALF.

Kazaalite takes about 20% of your cpu at 1ghz. Anything over that is NOT kazaa lite doing it. Its all that other crap you have loaded and running all the time. Get rid of it or get used to it.

And personally i find norton and mcaffee products are worse than having a virus.



"And zonealarm. You should never have a firewall up while using kazaa lite. Your sources are effectively cut in HALF."



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Don't run a firewall! You're stupid if you do because you get more sources off KAZAA! Jesus Christ I soooo need the latest spears MP3 within 5 minute's or I'm like going to soooo die! HAHAHAHA OMG nooooo.....Ok I'm done....that was just to fucking retarded. Should you be listening to virus prevention advice from a person who tells you to shut you're firewall off? Go get TPF if ZA hog's to much of your SR's




"Next.....Kazaalite takes about 20% of your cpu at 1ghz. Anything over that is NOT kazaa lite doing it. Its all that other crap you have loaded and running all the time. Get rid of it or get used to it. "


EVEN on my older P3 @800mhz with 512 mb ram running WinME with Winamp - playing a 320kbs file - Kazaa open DL around 10 files, uploading 2 or 3 - encoding to lame with commandline at the insane present while surfing a site - my CPU utaliazation is only at 39%. With just KL running it's much much less(around 9%). I never use an OS in it's 'out of the box' state - aways tweak. BTW I don't use any AV software (Tried AVG - thanx for the # lion LOL but it didn't fit me well an I went back to being AV free), an I've never had a virus for one simple reason I'm not a click happy bastard. I check the file before I run it. Why trust AV software? When you can bind a trojan or a virus with a program. Once it's hash is changed with a hex editor AV software can't detect it most of the time.




OK I'm seriously done ranting, my bad for snapping. LOL But GOD how retarded can someone be?! I hate know-it-all techie wanna be fuck's who rag on the 'smart people'. Hypocrite?


As for the weakest link I'd say it's the CPU cooling - Case design - HD quality - Mobo - Shit every part is cheap....... Even the CPU's are soooo close to spec there's no chance of OC'ing it an it's already getting hot running at normal speed. Same with ram like Hunter mentioned - buy cheap ram expect to get burned when your system crashes right in the middle of a long ass report you just did. LOL There really is a huge difference between some 13 dollar 128mb 133mhz chip an the 60+ dollar one. 60+ never gets hot because they produce it to work way above the 133mhz mark. Design is better, everything about it is better. Build your own an you'll be much happier.....



Hernie: Try running KL in the tray, for some odd reason I've noticed on many PC's that it hog's less an takes less over time while your running it. ODD very ODD but it works. Also disabling yourself as a supernode will work wonders, share less as well split your files up into different folders - an share different ones each time you get on. An get rid of norton! Trust your gut on files it'll keep you from being dooped by a new virus or a binded virus.
Use KL 1.7.1 in place of 2.0 if you're not already. Set up KL to upload a certain ammount at one time, do the same for downloads.


Dealie: You gave some good pointers, but yall act like a bastard about it. Stop the ego trip flame war type shit an post without the trash.



Peace all, Later

[MoonMan]

OK this is off topic but.. do you really have to go down the forum list with rants and flames Dealie? At about this time everyday I recieve about 10 emails from "Forums Mailer" with your name that responded to them.. and I have yet to find one of your posts that was meaningful, or intelligent without a flame or two.

Lighten up man, this is just a file sharing forum.

[MoonMan]

Originally posted by Dealie
Wow... 10 mails a day just from me?

Funny but i've only made 10 posts from this name so far.

What a rich and intresting fantasy life you have.

I did over-exaggerate.. more like 3. Doesn't really matter though, because I have you on ignore now. You don't seem to understand that people here don't take kindly to pricks like you. Anyways.. peace!

[The Hunter]

Originally posted by Dealie
Wow... 10 mails a day just from me?

Funny but i've only made 10 posts from this name so far.

What a rich and intresting fantasy life you have. Hmm interesting does that mean that were just as rude on here using another name? Naaah you wouldnt do that,but if you slow down on the I am smarter than you posts, you might just find out that most of us work together to make this a good site.

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by Dealie
Well, all i can say is at least you're smart enough not to trust avs.

Its too bad you're still deluded by the warm fuzzy feeling of security your firewall gives you.

Since thats all it truely does. A software firewall poses no problem for someone dedicated to trashing your machine.

I'd rather have my files finish quicker than be protected only from the script kiddies and lame ass port scans you get daily.

Most people who want to "attack" you are just not smart enough to do anything to you. And for that 1 in a million smart guy who actually knows enough to do something to your machine, the firewall wont matter. And in 15 years that hasnt happned to me yet. If it does tho, Thats what backups are for.

If you want real security you'd best be setting up a nix gateway machine or buying a hardware firewall. Since it seems so important to you.

:finger

Include lame i'm wrong and you're right response below.



Ok I'm wrong, you're right. That a shocker? (This is bullshit incase you couldn't tell....) I know for a fact that software firewall's are fairly weak. I can knock one out, it's not that hard. I don't take any software that has any 'auto' features along the lines of 'we'll take care of it an you don't have to worry' seriously. I alway's watch my system an I keep track of how it's set up, where things are. So there's never a moment when I get caught off guard by some 'new' file/program/reg key/ect. BTW even hardware firewalls can be taken out......you're damned either way if someone with the skills has it out for you. But that's the risk you take every time you get on the net. So theres no point in talking about that. As for the manner in which you speak.....stop being a fucking smuck! Either you know much an like to get your rocks off by sounding an acting like you're above others. Or your just really fucking stupid an know a few things an ride them to seem smart. Either way your a smuck.... Everyone was a newbie at one point an people on ZP are no different. So either tone your smug shit down or go somewhere else with your little "I'm better then you" complex.




Peace to the rest, Later

[BuzzB2K]

Originally posted by Dealie

:finger

Include lame i'm wrong and you're right response below.

Another addition to the ignore list... And feel free to say whatever you want 'cause I'll never see it...


:mellow Buzz

[CCSDUDE]

Is buzz a term for ignoring someone on a fourm? I recall "plunk" being the same for killfiling someone in a newsgroup "back in the day" LOL




Peace all, Later