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I have run SAbnzbd overnight for two nights and on both nights I have woken up to find (after turning on the monitor) that the screen is black, save for a flashing mouse cursor. The system is completely unresponsive and has to be restarted.

I have never had this problem with my system when running torrents or Steam downloads overnight, and I left it on with a CPU straining program last night to check the system wasn't simply unstable.

According to my bandwidth monitor, on both nights the download was running for 4-5 hours before it began slowly losing speed, dropping to half speed over about 20-30 minutes, and then completely dropping out.

The Windows system log records this at the same time the slow down began:

The browser has forced an election on network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{EF98F42F-9E4E-4064-896A-E4FB2100122B} because a master browser was stopped.

The Computer Browser service was successfully sent a stop control.

The reason specified was: 0x40030011 [Operating System: Network Connectivity (Planned)]

The Computer Browser service entered the stopped state.

These three information messages were recorded within 10 seconds of each other after three hours of no entries.

The system then recorded a series of errors between 15 and 30 minutes after the slowdown began:

An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably.The Registry could not flush hive (file): '\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE'.

An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably.The Registry could not flush hive (file): ''.

An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably.The Registry could not flush hive (file): '\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE'.

An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably.The Registry could not flush hive (file): '\??\C:\Users\USERNAME\ntuser.dat'.

An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably.The Registry could not flush hive (file): ''.

An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably.The Registry could not flush hive (file): '\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE'.

The second last error message coincided with the downloading stopping completely. The DNS service then started and stopped itself repeatedly until I rebooted the system.

I realise this is an odd problem and is probably being caused by an undiagnosable software/hardware glitch, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Any ideas what the problem could be?

Cheers

And the requested info:

Version: 0.4.12
OS: Windows 7 (fully patched)
Install-type: Windows Installer
Skin: Plush
Firewall Software: Windows firewall
Are you using IPV6? No
Is the issue reproducible? Yes

How much RAM do you have?
Do you leave the browser open with the web interface showing?
Have a try of the latest 0.5 RC and see if the problem is still there.

Hi,

I have 4GBs of RAM and I close the browser. There might be some problem with a memory leak, as I found this in the application log in the event viewer:

Event 3100, Search

Unable to initialize the filter host process. Terminating.

Details:
Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.  (HRESULT : 0x800705aa) (0x800705aa)

This is timestamped 30 seconds before the first entry in the system log above.

I'll download the latest RC and also try shutting down other programs over night.

You are sure this doesn't come from your anti-virus
or software firewall?