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slow on startup

PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:53 am
by gkar
Hi

When loading NB(and it always does this) it takes about a minute after the download list is loaded(takea a few seconds) before it responds. Drive LED shows little to no activity. Task manager shows NB in a non responsive state and at about 25% CPU running 6 or 7 threads. Disk shows access on GuiItems.db3-journal - GuiItems.dbs and c:\$Logfile(NTFS Volume Log) access is limited and then stops, at this point NB is still using about 25% CPU and is still non responsive for another 30 seconds or so, before it starts downloading and CPU drops to about 1%. BTW im seeing no network activity at all until it starts downloading.

MOTU is off

Running 64bit 6.40B6 Build 1985 with windows 7

thx for youre time Quade and others :)

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:09 am
by DThor
The first thing I'd be curious about is if there's any indication of this with an empty download queue. You could either wait for it to clear out, or rename downloads.db3 then start up newsbin again. That would isolate the behaviour to processing the queue, or not.

If the queue is largish, and you happen to be in the middle of a particularly large download item, it does take some time for newsbin to analyze which blocks are on disk already and what still needs downloading. It could be that.

DT

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:10 am
by Quade
I think the "motd" thing might be related though. I'll check it out.

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:17 am
by gkar
que has 537 items in it total size 470GB

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:33 pm
by Quade
How big is your NBI file? It should be in the data folder.

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:31 pm
by gkar
9.99KB

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:34 pm
by Quade
That's pretty tiny. Mines 60K.

Ok, I'll think about it some more.

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:49 pm
by gkar
just in case you need other sizes

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btw try renaming downloads.db3, made no difference got same behavoiur as first post(once id reloaded with new empty db3 file)

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:13 am
by gkar
a bit more info

Ive found if I delete the NBI file NBP starts up with no problems. Hope this helps to shed some light on the issue

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:41 am
by Quade
That is weird. I wonder if Guiitems.db3 was damaged?

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:07 pm
by gkar
ok got it...guiitems was ok, tried deteing it, NBP started up as per 1st post. Then i deleted AutoPAR2.DB3 and NBP started up fine! It has made another AutoPAR2.DB2 and stared downloading. Am I OK to run NBP like this? What have i lost by deleteing the AutoPAR2 file?

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:08 pm
by Quade
Nothing. It re-creates itself.

It stores information about files you've downloaded that aren't matched up with PAR files yet.

Re: slow on startup

PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:17 pm
by gkar
cool, well all is good now, thx 4 youre time :)