Re: Re: Busy hard drive when finishing a file

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:22:44 +0000, Brian Kraft <[email protected]> was
claimed to have wrote:

>john_elvin wrote:
>
>>If the files you download were made up of many parts it has to glue
>>them all together again. Could also be virus checking software on your
>>PC checking newly written files.
>
>Some newsreaders assemble the articles from a cache.  Is BNR2 caching
>articles?  It seems to have already decoded and assembled as far as
>possible all of the segments by the time the last one is downloaded.
>The bigger the file, the more disk writing there is at the end, and
>CPU utilization shoots up too.    I know it's by design, just wonder
>why.  Always happens, even if all of the segments are downloaded in
>numerical order.  All boxes are unchecked in Options -> File Checking.
>I don't have anything checking for viruses.  Another Windows
>newsreader I have which decodes and appends on the fly doesn't have
>that busy disk writing at the end when the last article arrives,
>not even for the big 400 MB RARs I've been downloading lately.

BNR does the final assembly when the file is complete, the difference
between BNR and other newsreaders is that BNR's burst of CPU and disk
activity happens at once, rather then spreading the load out as parts
are downloaded.


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