PeerGuardian using 95% of an Athlon64?

[obeseotron]

I recently discovered PeerGuardian, and because I make occasional use of emule and bittorrent I figured better safe(r) than sorry. I only use torrents from private boards, and I don't think the 1 or 2 mp3's a friend might download in a given month would really cause too much attention, but I figured there was no reason no to use PG. Depending on what I'm actually doing online peer guardian uses a ton of cpu. Just pulling up anandtech or a similar site causes PG to hover around 40%, god forbid I actually open a p2p application. With only 3 downloads going in emule and 3 in azureus my cpu usage was like 95%! I'm talking about about 30K up and down a second, not earth shattering speed. With an overclocked Athlon64 3500+ and a gig of RAM I found this shocking. I set some connection limits in emule and azureus I got CPU usage to drop down to around 50%. It calms down as low as 20% and bouces up as high as 70%. Do I have something set up wrong or is PG really that processor intense or badly coded.

 

[DetroitSportsFan]

PeerGuardian
"100% accuracy , 0% CPU usage, blocking of ALL protocols, kernel-level."

Sound good? - Don_PhrostByte (see forums) has provided the source code to handle core functionality at kernel-level. Pending discussions and probably some GUI development.. it looks like the PG project will be revived with the same level of performance you can expect from all similar programs that have emerged since PeerGuardian came into existence.

New PG releases will have more features besides the core improvements (linking to the new update locations, custom block/exclusion lists and more) but the kernel-level blocking of all protocols was the most important news.

You can read that at MethLabs. Sounds like the CPU usage issue you mention is well known and not just you who is experiencing it.