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I currently run on version 4.2.2 and sab is downloading at a rate of 60MB/s max even though clicking on wrench and internet bandwidth is showing 162.5 MB/s. Sab is a container installed on docker and config and download folders are on nvme drive.
any help is appreciated.

here is status

Nameserver / DNS Lookup OK
Used cache 0 B (0 articles)
System load 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.19 | V=158M R=81M
System performance (Pystone) 258228 Common KVM processor SSE2
Download folder speed 632.2 MB/s /downloads/incoming
Complete folder speed 697.4 MB/s /downloads/completed/movies
Internet Bandwidth 162.5 MB/s 1300 Mbps

If that is the output after a few downloads: as there is no "download limited by" cpu/disk, your cpu and disk are not the bottleneck: they can handle everyting that is coming in. So the bottleneck is there ... in your newsservers.

Have ticket open with newsserver, will see what they come back with.

What hardware is your server?
It only lists SSE2 acceleration which is something you only see on ancient cpu's.

OP says "container" and "Common KVM processor SSE2", so something virtualised?

If Proxmox:

"On the VM Wizard change the CPU type to host, you can also do this by selecting the VM Hardware Tab - > Processor and then edit.

You need to stop and start the VM for this to take effect."

sander wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2024, 3:42 am OP says "container" and "Common KVM processor SSE2", so something virtualised?

If Proxmox:

"On the VM Wizard change the CPU type to host, you can also do this by selecting the VM Hardware Tab - > Processor and then edit.

You need to stop and start the VM for this to take effect."

Trying with container CPU set to HOST did it!!!! Now seeing 168MB downloads
Thank you so much for the fix!

Interesting! Didn't know this was a thing!

safihre wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2024, 2:35 pm Interesting! Didn't know this was a thing!

Thanks again!

Here are the settings now in SAB
System load 5.59 | 2.56 | 1.43 | V=183M R=108M
System performance (Pystone) 157873 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz AVX
Download folder speed 494.8 MB/s /downloads/incoming
Complete folder speed 504.7 MB/s /downloads/completed/movies
Internet Bandwidth 168.4 MB/s 1347.2 Mbps

So pystone is now lower, but you get a better newserver download speed? Weird

EDIT

Your Core(TM) i7-3770 is from 2012, so 12 years old. The lower pystone speed looks more realistic. And the KVM looks high ... so ... fake. Weird.