Automatic Pause when Extracting

[abhs]

Hi, for computers with high speed connections (15MBps) the hard drive begins to throttle system performance when it begins to extract while simultaneously downloading. I assume this may happen to slow computers that are trying to assemble files from the download queue while extracting another job, so I think this would be a good idea to implement. Sorry if it has already been mentioned or is in the works. Thanks

[switch]

You can enable it in Config>switches "Pause downloading during post processing:"

To stop running into this issue, you can set your article cache limit in config>general to a value just higher than the size of the files you are downloading, such as 60M if you download a lot of 50megabyte files. This will stop any writing of cache to the disk during downloading, at a cost of higher RAM. See http://sabnzbd.wikidot.com/highspeed-downloading

[vlad59]

You can also use ionice to be sure that par2/unrar don't get all ressources