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

--- In [email protected], Lenny_Nero <Lenny_Nero@...> wrote:
>
> 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

Neither have I. But I have had my computer lock up while BNR was
running. That's what I said above although I may have worded it badly.
When I said systems locks up because of something else I did I did not
mean to imply that BNR was locking the system up. Just that my system
locked up while BNR was in the process of downloading.

> 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

Easy but tedious and that is what BNR2 did away with. I just with BNR3
also did. I have not had to rebuild the queue for a very long time.
*crosses fingers*

> remember the last time I saw a STOP or had hard lock.

On my old XP machine I would get random lockups until I finally fixed
the problem. Those dang creative drivers as well as PCI latency
issues. After creative updated their drivers and I downloaded and used
the PCI latency tool I no longer had any lockups and I had that system
running for the past couple of years with no lockups.

My new system is running Vista and its even more stable than the XP
one, however, right now I'm basically testing various things out on it
so its very likely that I grab something to test and cause a lockup. 
 
> 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.

Perhaps I'm doing it wrong. Say I have marked 2000 articles in several
news groups and the system crashes. Now assume that I did not backup
the queue as you mentioned.

To rebuild the queue I have always had to just open up each group
(Have to remember which groups they were) and filter so that I see
only those marked for download. I highlight them all and unmark and
remark them so that they are added to the queue. I repeat this for
every group.

Do you know of a different way?
 
> 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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