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Hello,
I've got a Syno DS207+ with the latest firmware:  3.0 1354 and Merty's SAB package http://www.mertymade.com/syno/#sabnzbd and am having all kinds of stability issues lately.  The syno will hard lockup when downloading files.  It almost always happens when there are multiple files in the queue.

I do have Only Get Articles for Top of Queue enabled as well as Pause Downloading during post-processing.  These are the only settings I can think of that would have an impact when multiple files are being downloaded. 

Anyone run into the same issue or perhaps have some other tweaking suggestions?  The Syno is a great machine, sadly with not a lot of RAM or CPU.  I can download nzb's around 2MB/s though which is all I need.

Thanks,
Froz

How much memory do you have?
256M should work OK anything less can be a challenge.
I assume you have not enabled the article cache?

Only 128 on this box.  Nope, i surely don't have enough ram for the article cache.  one thing i do notice is that it runs the CPU to 100% while downloading or doing anything.  It's always done that though.

You've done all you could do.
Did the problems begin with a particular version of SABnzbd or updates of the NAS?

The only other tip I can give you is to stop SABnzbd and start
it once with the --clean option.
The alternative is to stop SABnzbd and erase all files in the "cache" folder.
This will wipe the queue too.

Thanks. I can give that a shot.  I'm pretty sure that SAB is not pausing downloading while it is extracting and that is what is causing me a problem.  Is there a way to guarantee this doesn't happen, perhaps a script or something?

thanks

Odd, it is supposed to stop downloading if you enable that option.
However, when post processing starts it will finish all pending article downloads.