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Hi All,

I just started using SABnzbd (and I love it!).

Version: 0.4.0 Beta5
OS: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy - x86_64
Install-type: Ubuntu Deb
Skin (if applicable): Default
Firewall Software: None
Are you using IPV6? It's enabled in OS
Is the issue reproducible? Yes

I'm having an issue with the auto-pause feature not working.  I setup my auto-pause threshold to be 10G (which was correctly converted to bytes in the config file, so I think SABnzbd is happy with the value).  Currently I have 2G free in the temp directory (which SABnzbd correctly reports on the Queue page).  For some reason the queue does not seem to want to pause.  My initial thought was maybe because I set my auto-pause value to be greater than the current available disk space, this might have caused an issue?

Thanks!

I had 1.38G available (as reported by SABnzbd on Queue page).  I set the pause threshold to 1.35G.  The queue did auto-pause when it went below 1.35G.  So I suspect an issue when setting the pause value to something that is greater than the current available disk space.

Well, turns out the pause feature works great, this just happened to be a case of lack of patience + lack of knowledge about the nuts and bolts of SABnzbd.  SABnzbd will check the available disk space against the limit you have specified when it starts downloading a file.  This means that if you are in the middle of downloading a file, and you hit your limit, the queue may not pause immediately, but it will when it starts downloading the next file.  This is all intentional and as designed, all of which is correct and there is no issue here.

(I just happened to be downloading/testing on a large download that had 50MB files, and I wasn't waiting long enough to see the pause feature in action)