Existing users, 
soulseeX
Soulseek client
Version: 1.0b6
What are you talking about?
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: mandli Saturday, June 02 2007 @ 04:53 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: YES
I've been using ssX quite frequently for more than 2 years now, and this problem never occurred to me. It just keeps running and running, no full HDD and no lost Transfers. Best client I ever had.
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What are you talking about? - mikirby
Forgot to mention... I had ramstick open, and checked the number of new VM swapfiles this morning... Soulseex had generated 28 new swapfiles overnight.Wednesday, December 19 2007 @ 04:53 PM PST
Other users report the problem too - mikirby
Sorry, "MemoryStick" not "RamStick".I also forgot to mention, is you search the official soulseex forums, run by the developer, for the word "Memory", you'll find still more people complaining about the problem. See http://forums.slsknet.org/ipb/index.php?showtopic=9514&hl=memory
Wednesday, December 19 2007 @ 05:58 PM PST
What are you talking about? - mikirby
UPDATE, several months later: I have so many problems with this software, and the developer has been so unresponsive to bug reports, that it actually makes me ANGRY to see someone claiming that this is something better than a bug-filled piece of abandonware.Gotta go - off to restart my computer again to get rid of the 3GB of swapfiles that this horrible program deposited on my hard drive in the last 18 hours.
Wednesday, February 06 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
What are you talking about? - mikirby
Any number of factors could influence this. Perhaps you have a huge hard drive with 30GB free space, so you don't notice. Perhaps you quit Soulseek every day and reopened again the next day, instead of leaving it open and downloading.Here's how you can see the problem yourself: Download "MemoryStick", a small freeware application that alerts you as new memory swwapfiles are written, and leave soulseek open & downloading for a few days. Also do a few searches for very common results... "Radiohead", "Beatles", etc., things that will return a large number of results.
Then leave it open a day or two and watch the swapfile count rise on MemoryStick.
Yesterday I had 2 GBs free space on my startup drive, this morning I woke up and my hard drive was FULL. And I didn't download 2GB worth of stuff overnight or have anything else running.
Do a google serch for: soulseex memory OR ram
and you'll find comments from other people with the same problem. Or look at the reviews for this app on MacUpdate.
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Wednesday, December 19 2007 @ 04:51 PM PST