amule problem

[Dave Stevens]

I've recently installed Amule 2.0.0rc5 on FC2. It has so far taken ten minutes 
to start up and has not yet succeeded. It is taking up almost all of the CPU 
time in the system. top output follows:

top - 10:29:35 up  2:30,  4 users,  load average: 2.08, 1.74, 1.07
Tasks: 102 total,   2 running, 100 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 66.8% us, 33.2% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    257104k total,   253652k used,     3452k free,     9440k buffers
Swap:   522104k total,   105148k used,   416956k free,    90128k cached
                                                                                 
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 4860 dave      25   0 28084 9620  23m R 85.5  3.7   8:31.79 amule
 3315 root      15   0 70572  22m  43m S  7.3  9.1   8:55.79 X
 4840 dave      15   0 27340  12m  20m S  6.0  5.1   0:01.93 gnome-terminal
 3557 dave      15   0 19164 5196  16m S  0.7  2.0   0:10.35 clock-applet
 4881 dave      17   0  2652  952 1784 R  0.7  0.4   0:00.54 top
 3402 dave      15   0 14156 5952  12m S  0.3  2.3   0:06.19 metacity
 4835 dave      15   0 40600  16m  30m S  0.3  6.5   0:01.76 abiword
    1 root      16   0  2384  500 1480 S  0.0  0.2   0:01.74 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 events/0
    4 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper

does anyone have any idea why this is?

Dave
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