Re: BNR2 goes crazy and creates 25,000 tmp files in a few minutes

--- In [email protected], Lenny_Nero <Lenny_Nero@...> wrote:
>
> stormblade said
> 
> 
> > Well BNR2 has known database issues. As long as you use that one
just be
> > ready to periodically have to delete yoru database and re-download all
> > headers. I've never seen the temp file problem you describe though and
> > I've used BNR2 for years now.
> 
> Words outa my mouth, I have used BNRx and helped in the old forums and
> this list for many years (got 3+ years worth of posts archived in this
> newsreader), but never heard or seen such a thing, IMO something
else got
> in the way like zonealarm and its yEnc blocking problems.
> 
> If you try to start BNR3 while its already running you will get the
> "unable to open database" thing just as you say.
> 
> BNR3 does not need anymore work IMO its as good as perfect, I have it

I agree with everything you've said except the previous statement.
BNR3 does need more work. Patrick and Jeff admitted this years. The
version of BNR3 that we're using was not a finished product. I'd have
to look for the thread but Patrick I believe said that it was mainly a
test version for the new database and the new thread grouping (which
still could use some improvements and tightening up).

It doesn't have all the features BNR2 does I don't believe. One thing
I miss sorely is the ability to rebuild the queue. Perhaps this was
added and there's an option but BNR2 would rebuild the queue if needed
on startup. Although now my computer doesn't really crash often I do
many things while leaving BNR to download in the background. 

Sometimes I run something that locks up my system. The articles are
still flagged in the database. The queue just needs to be rebuilt.
Again BNR2 did this. I remember asking years ago about this and was
told it hadn't been added yet and that BNR3 was not feature complete.
This was something like 2 years ago.

> running for ages without problem (last time it was left for a very long
> run it did 28 days 13 hours while I was away and just short of a TB)
I vac
> and frag (via a bat file) the msglst's (sqLite DB's) around once a month
> (cant remember last time I had to setup a new sqLite DB gotta be
more than
> 18~20 months) and use contig to defrag the msglst as part of its
start up
> so its always as fast as a new DB even if its >800 MB. There is no other
> newsreader/downloader that can come close to the power or
automation, but
> it does need to be setup to the computer its being used on, all of which
> has been posted about many times search the list for .bat files, page
> files, BNR setup, database or just read TF list ...via Gmane is best IMO
> but YMMV.
> 
> L_N
> 
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