How does sabnzbd handle restarts?

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xeddog
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How does sabnzbd handle restarts?

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My guess is not very well.  I have just started using sabnzbd+ with SickBeard and Couch Potato in the last few days.  On a couple of occasions I have restarted either my computer or sabnzbd+ and it seems like the downloads that were in progress at the time started over from the beginning again, or very nearly so.  For example, last night when I shut down my computer there was a download in process that was 11.9GB in size and at the time of shutdown there was 8.2GB remaining.  When I restarted this morning, just a couple of minutes after restarting there was 10.6GB remaining so approximately 2.5GB had to be re-downloaded.  I have only noticed these numbers a couple of times, but each time it seems like there is way too much data that has to be re-downloaded.  Is this typical?

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Wayne
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Re: How does sabnzbd handle restarts?

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You should shutdown SABnzbd properly.
Windows is too impatient when it tries to shutdown programs before its own shutdown.
This problem is especially present when you have a large article cache.
The alternative is to save everything to disk every five second, killing for performance.

BTW: when running SABnzbd 0.6.0 (rc) as a Windows Service it will get enough shutdown time from Windows.
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