6.51 build 3159 issues - slow load and disconnection

[oferlaor]

1. Starting up takes a very long time. I timed it today at over 5 minutes between running the application and until I see any UI (I can see in task manager that it's loading up memory slowly).

2. Yesterday, it stopped downloading completely. All server connections were "disconnected" and I could only do "kill connection" on them (no "retry"). Tried to disable and then enable the 2 servers I have (one regular and one fill-server), but to no avail. Had to restart the application.

I might have had an internet outage yesterday, but once it's back, shouldn't it have retried connecting again?

[DThor]

1. You don't offer up anything in terms of the way you run newsbin that gives any troubleshooting clues, so it's just shooting in the dark. I'm guessing you have a massive download queue since to my knowledge that's the only thing that might need serious processing/memory on startup. Try renaming your downloads.db3 file then starting - zippy again? Any network or potentially offline drives in the pipeline?

2. If you had something as serious as an Internet outage, that's one of those scenarios where I would check /restart *any* service or application that stays connected constantly (which again is a shot in the dark). I'm pretty sure there's a timeout though. The fact it showed as disconnected suggests something was up for a while and the newsbin host was saying "no Internet". Time to restart.

DT

[oferlaor]

1. The download queue is empty. I deleted the downloads.db3 (42MB) file tried again - faster, but still a bit slow. Shouldn't an empty downloads.db3 be as fast as no such file at all?

What I am seeing that's big is the downloaded.db3 file - it's 2GB+ file. Should I delete it?

2. Sounds right, since it was a unique incident. But shouldn't it have retried after I disabled and enabled the server? I normally don't check on NBP anymore, since it's running on its own dedicated server...

BTW, the file version in the EXE is still at 6.41

[Quade]

What I am seeing that's big is the downloaded.db3 file - it's 2GB+ file. Should I delete it?

There's no problem killing it. It'll just wipe the files list.