Sabnzbdplus hangs randomly

[krusty]

Hi All,

I'm new here - and new to using the software too.

I have it installed on Ubuntu 9.04.  I'm not 100% sure which version it is (laptop is at home), but it's direct from the repositories, installed with APT.
Version: Installed from APT
OS: Ubuntu 9.04
Install-type: Linux repository
Firewall Software: None
Are you using IPV6? No
Is the issue reproducible? (Sort of)

Basically, the problem I'm having is that my machine is hangs during download.  The very first time I ran it, I got a great 400kbps and downloaded about 1Gb fine.  Now, I start it up and any download starts out great, however after normally about 20 minutes, my machine hangs up completely, to the point that the mouse won't even move.  I have to hard reset the machine and after that, it repeats the process above.

Some things to note are the following:
Ubuntu is installed on a USB stick (4Gb) and boots from there.
I have a 400Gb external drive mounted FAT on a USB port.
I use mount --bind to create a link to this drive in a folder in my home folder
I have changed the download and temp path to point to this new folder.

It's possible that my strange drive config is causing the problem, although I can't imagine why this wouldn't work.

Any advice or pointers would be much appreciated.  Further, is there any sort of logfile I can look at which might help?  None of the default files contain any info on a previous "hang."

Thanks in advance.

[shypike]

Looks like unreliable hardware to me.
Not that SABnzbd is 100% reliable of course, but it locking up a system is a very rare complaint.
Logging is in ~/.sabnzbd/logs

Try stress-testing your system with other software.

[krusty]

Thanks for the reply - I will do some stress tests tonight.

I wouldn't imagine the hardware is unstable as it is a perfectly working laptop otherwise.

I'll let you know how it goes.