New downloading options

[Questar_99]

From the download page:
"Only 2 downloading modes, fully buffered in memory or chunks in the common folder."

Where is this setup? I prefer not to use chunks. Doing an upgrade set the chunk cache to 200, same as I had it set in 6.42.

[Quade]

It's automatic. Not really something you have to mess with.

You always have to do "chunks" because files download in chunks from the server. If Newsbin can fit them all into memory, the chunks never get written to disk. On the the other hand if you download a file that consists of 300 chunks. Some of them will be in RAM and some will be on disk. The number of chunks of the file and the number of chunks set in the cache determine if any chunks get written to disk.

It might make sense to increase the chunks, depending on what you download.

[Questar_99]

Thanks Quade.

So this doesn't seem to be really a change from 6.42?

[Quade]

It's changed pretty significantly in that 6.42 always wrote to NB2 files during download so, there was always disk IO. Now though, most files get downloaded to RAM and get written out in one shot with no intermediate step. It's more reliable than the old scheme and typically results in less total disk IO and higher download speeds.