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

Stormblade said


> Although BNR3's database is fairly rock solid if you have all the safety
> features, journaling and such turned on it can be quite slow so most of
> us turn these off. This isn't a problem as long as well there isn't a
> problem but occasionally there may be. Again this is dependant on how
> you use BNR. As I mentioned I often will have it running in the
> background while I'm doing other stuff. So if it's downloading and my
> system locks up because of something else I did then there is a chance
> the database will get corrupted and/or the queue file will disappear.

I have never had BNRx lock up any computer I have used it on. I can
remember that a few years ago BNR2 could get stuck in a loop, but you just
killed the .exe and restarted it. Sometimes BNR3 looked like its stuck but
will always finish from what I have seen. As for other things, well it
depends on how stable you need your computers to be, I dont have an OS
install at less than ~2 years and I only re boot once or twice a month for
most of them, and as I have said the que is easy to rebuild, and I cant
remember the last time I saw a STOP or had hard lock.

I have checked quite a few times the speeds with everything turned off and
on and the difference is a few seconds ...I could care less, so they are
always turned on, I doubt that my computers are so much faster than all
others, the version[s] I use most are on an old Athlon XP 2600 (~1900
MHz). I have said many times that its best to run it on/from its own
drive/ partition and I use a batch file that saves the que to a .rar file
defrags the msglst with contig and then starts the program, so if there is
a problem at start up you still have the que, but even so, its so easy to
get all of your que files rebuilt its not needed, and the DB is always as
fast as it can be.

I also read some very big groups and that is where I found the threading
to be the most problematic, but then I read a group thru and then stop and
carry on with other things, I dont have anywhere I work from with just one
computer so I always have BNRx running in the background somewhere, I read
check and select, load up the que with a few gigs and go on with other
work, then think I have a spare few, read down thru the groups some more
and again load up the que and so on ...a quick look and the above computer
(XP2600) says its been working for 8 days, 9 hours, 48 minutes, 56 seconds
with BNR3 at a hour'ish shorter.

L.
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