I run SAB on a PC which also has the storage for my video library. When SABnzb is processing a downloaded video it seems to take use all of the CPU resources of this machine. If I'm trying to watch a program on my media center PC, it freezes until the main PC has a moment to read the next segment and send it over the network.
Are there any setting I can use (windows or sabnzb) to limit the load that SABnzb places on the computer?
Overloading PC
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Re: Overloading PC
Hi,
I sometimes experience the same on my HTPC: SAB downloading and unpacking at the same time als watching via VLC is not a great idea: VLC will stutter.
On Windows, maybe you can lower the priority of SABnzbd like described here: https://winaero.com/blog/change-process ... indows-10/
The real CPU and Disk killers are unrar and par2repair. These are child-processes of SABnzbd. I'm hoping that child processes of a low-prio process also get a low prio ...
I sometimes experience the same on my HTPC: SAB downloading and unpacking at the same time als watching via VLC is not a great idea: VLC will stutter.
On Windows, maybe you can lower the priority of SABnzbd like described here: https://winaero.com/blog/change-process ... indows-10/
The real CPU and Disk killers are unrar and par2repair. These are child-processes of SABnzbd. I'm hoping that child processes of a low-prio process also get a low prio ...
Re: Overloading PC
You can set the process-priority in Windows specifically for unrar and par2 inside SABnzbd, go to:
Config > Switches > External process priority.
Config > Switches > External process priority.
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