downloads get really slow near the end of the download

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peposo
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downloads get really slow near the end of the download

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I'm having this weird issue where my downloads get extremely slow just in the last few bytes of a file. For example, I'm downloading some episode of 1,9GB and my speed is around 7mb/sec. In the last few megabytes it gets to 23kb/s.

Somebody knows what's going on?

I'm on 0.7.1.1, mac osx 10.8.3

Thanks!
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shypike
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Re: downloads get really slow near the end of the download

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Do you have multiple servers?
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Re: downloads get really slow near the end of the download

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No, just one.
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Re: downloads get really slow near the end of the download

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It could be a bug in SABnzbd of course.
It could also be that your Usenet server fails to acknowledge that it doesn't have some article.
Check your server's timeout in Config->Servers.
Check "retries" in Config->Switches (anything between 3 and 5 is OK).
Make sure "only for optional servers" (below that) is off.
Still if the server times out it will take "retries" * "timeout", which can be like 5 minutes or more before SABnzbd gives up.

Should it really block, you can set the "priority" to stop to force post-processing.
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