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Hi,

I've just upgraded to Mountain Lion as well as updated my sabnzbd for OSX to 0.7.2

I've noticed that when my Mac goes into screen saver mode, when I come back, all download activity has stopped on sabnzbd and I need to get into the interface, pause it then un-pause it to get it going. Is this a known issue? Is there a fix or a setting I need to change?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Albyd.

Don't know about this, but it sounds more like a bug in Mountain Lion.
As far as I know, OSX doesn't tell app that the screensaver is running,
so how should SABnzbd know?
Which screensaver are you using? Does it eat up all CPU capacity?
Does it make a difference if you do not have a browser window with SABnzbd's UI open
when the screen saver kicks in?

Currently I only have a VMWare-Fusion-based installation of Mountain Lion
and that doesn't show the behaviour that you describe.

I have the same bad behavior. When "Mountain Lion" puts the Mac under sleep mode, SABnzbd can't download anymore as the wifi connection is disabled. Exactly as if the OS doesn't see the internet activity or SABnzbd doesn't say "please keep me alive."
With Lion everything was ok...

It's a MountainLion problem and complaints about its aggressive standby behaviour are all over the web.
I haven't had time yet to look at how to prevent this behaviour programatically, but I will soon.

It would be great ! Thank you very much

Temporary work-around.
Start SABnzbd with the caffeinate tool:
From a Terminal windows type: This will prevent standby as long as SABnzbd is running.
You should also set an end-of-queue action "Shutdown", otherwise standby will never happen.

So if my headless Mac Mini Server running sabnzbd 0.7.2. is set to never sleep, I should be unaffected by this, correct? I haven't installed Mountain Lion yet.

That's right.
In fact it's your own choice.
You can tell OSX to never go to sleep.
By default ML has an aggressive power management,
which makes sense for laptops.

Release 0.7.3Beta2 will have a fix for the Mountain Lion standby problem.
So far a bit primitive, but it should work.

Hi guys,

Thanks very much for your help - really appreciate it. Meant to respond earlier. Haven't been able to get online lately. I'll try 0.7.3 Beta and hopefully this will fix it. I'll report back with any issues/successes.

Hi,

I've just installed the latest version. I'm getting the same issues - when I go out and leave my computer to download, I come back and the internet connection seems suspended and my download has stopped progressing. Is there anything else we can do short of disabling the power saving features?

There is already support for keeping OSX awake in 0.7.3,
although it may not work for every system.
We are working on an improved solution for the next release.