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Shazam1203
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Slower downloads on windows

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Hey everyone,

I just switched from linux to windows and on linux I was able to max out my 300/300 connection but now on windows I am only getting about half that and download speed is very inconsistent. Any clue what could be wrong?
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Re: Slower downloads on windows

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Do you have set the same number of connections?
Do you have set the same article cache?
How much cpu does Sab use during downloading?
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Re: Slower downloads on windows

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Shazam1203 wrote:Hey everyone,

I just switched from linux to windows and ...
I stopped reading there ... ;)
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Re: Slower downloads on windows

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It uses very little cpu like maybe 5 percent. I have a pretty good machine -

Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter - All updates applied
i7 4790K
16gb ram
os drive -nvme m.2 ~2GB/s
download drive - raid 0 array ~350MB/s

Same number of connections as I used before -
Newshosting - 30
Astraweb - 20

Article cache limit is set at default 450M but I tried with unlimited and there was no difference

I can max out my connection with nzbget but I hate the interface lol
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Re: Slower downloads on windows

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sander wrote:
Shazam1203 wrote:Hey everyone,

I just switched from linux to windows and ...
I stopped reading there ... ;)
I do prefer linux personally but there are some gui tools I like and its a pain running a vm just to access makemkv, mkvtoolnix and other things lol. Also if I ran gui on linux VNC is nowhere near as good of an experience as RDP
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Re: Slower downloads on windows

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Do you run it as a service or regular?
We have troubles with Windows Server versions. I have no idea why, maybe it does some extra connection checks? It's very specific to Windows server 2008 and 2012.
Any better without firewall/virusscanner?
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Re: Slower downloads on windows

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I am running it as a service. Windows firewall is turned off, and the only av is the built in windows defender.

Any luck with Server 2016? I have license for that also
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Re: Slower downloads on windows

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Try not running as a service, this seems to really impair Sab.
Windows Server doesn't like the resource hunger of Sab.
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