Long Pause when saving for SABnzbd_nzo_URSELY or totals9.sab

Get help with all aspects of SABnzbd
Forum rules
Help us help you:
  • Are you using the latest stable version of SABnzbd? Downloads page.
  • Tell us what system you run SABnzbd on.
  • Adhere to the forum rules.
  • Do you experience problems during downloading?
    Check your connection in Status and Interface settings window.
    Use Test Server in Config > Servers.
    We will probably ask you to do a test using only basic settings.
  • Do you experience problems during repair or unpacking?
    Enable +Debug logging in the Status and Interface settings window and share the relevant parts of the log here using [ code ] sections.
Post Reply
simoncm
Newbie
Newbie
Posts: 5
Joined: August 5th, 2010, 12:22 pm

Long Pause when saving for SABnzbd_nzo_URSELY or totals9.sab

Post by simoncm »

Hi

I'm running Sabnzbd 0.71 on a Synology 410j, and I'm getting some unusual pauses during downloading.

The Synology's "resource monitor" shows zero received data during these pauses, and also that the CPU usage drops considerably showing that the box is not just churning data.

The log file equally shows gaps corresponding to these pauses, with the pauses always between the following two events:
2012-07-16 13:25:48,328::DEBUG::[__init__:805] Saving data for SABnzbd_nzo_URSELY in /volume1/video/...
2012-07-16 13:28:57,605::INFO::[__init__:880] Saving data for totals9.sab in /var/packages/sab2/target/sab/admin/totals9.sab

Does anyone know what these events are, and have any solution to stop these pauses (they are typically several minutes in length, sometimes longer).

BTW, the "Pause Downloading During Post-Processing" switch is unchecked. I also recognize that the Synology box is a little "light" on resources (RAM in particular).

Thanks
Simon
User avatar
shypike
Administrator
Administrator
Posts: 19774
Joined: January 18th, 2008, 12:49 pm

Re: Long Pause when saving for SABnzbd_nzo_URSELY or totals9

Post by shypike »

It just means that the box cannot keep up with the download speed.
Make sure you haven't set too much article cache (it shouldn't cause swapping)
and that you've scaled down the # of cnonnections to the minimum required
for optimal speed.
The larger the NZBs are, the more time is needed for interim saves to disk.
That's why saves are done less frequently for larger NZBs.
Just how much memory does your box have?
simoncm
Newbie
Newbie
Posts: 5
Joined: August 5th, 2010, 12:22 pm

Re: Long Pause when saving for SABnzbd_nzo_URSELY or totals9

Post by simoncm »

Hi Shypike, thanks for replying.

The box only has 128MB, which from posts already on this forum I realise is too small.

Is this this pause the copying of the cache to disk? If so it seems a little long, given the cache at most is going to be a few MB. Could there be a reason that Sabnzbd is trying to copy the cache, but is being held up by the Synology's OS?

thanks
Simon
User avatar
shypike
Administrator
Administrator
Posts: 19774
Joined: January 18th, 2008, 12:49 pm

Re: Long Pause when saving for SABnzbd_nzo_URSELY or totals9

Post by shypike »

With so little memory you need to disable the article cache altogether.
Even then each article will be written to disk and when all articles for a file are in,
they are assembled into a file. This will take some time.
It's already positive that SABnzbd runs at all on such a small system.
Post Reply