[nzbget] NZBget 0.7.0 download and discussion

[Lurch]

Hi all,

last night my usenet provider switched from SSL to SSL2 (which is apparently older?) for some reason.
Nzbget doesn't like that at all and now cannot connect to the server any longer. With SSL turned off it connects fine again, but I'd rather have a secured transfer.

Any suggestions (am I overlooking a setting somewhere perhaps)?
Thanks!

[hugbug]

(06-22-2009 05:47 PM)Ger Teunis Wrote:  I'll add the busybox to the nzbget as well, it is a nice postprocessing script.

Actually it's very easy to change the script and hard code the path to config file to eliminate the usage of "dirname". However it would mean that you need to do that every time when create a package for a new version.
I'm sure it is possible to replace "dirname" with "awk", but I'm not that good at shell scripting.

Installing a better version of busybox which includes dirname is probably the easiest solution for NMT.

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(06-22-2009 09:54 PM)Lurch Wrote:  last night my usenet provider switched from SSL to SSL2.
Nzbget doesn't like that at all and now cannot connect to the server any longer.

Any error messages? Have you tested from PC (with NZBGet for Windows or any other usenet downloader)?

[mangaman]

After uninstalling Oversight nzbget cannot unpack after download. Error i get is that the Post- Process: Configuration file /postprocess. conf not found.
hope somebody has an easy solution...

manga

[lordy]

Oversight should re-install the previous post process setting after uninstalling.
Did you have unpack working before?

Depending on version of nzbget you should set this to point to the current post process or unpack script.

For CSI nzbget set PostProcess=/share/Apps/NZBget/postprocess.sh
and install telnet via CSI so the script will work correctly.

PS I understand the Oversight is not fully polished (esp navigation and detection can be improved - adding more detection stuff as I write) but if you have any suggestions for improvement I'm all ears - be gentle though. (PM or in Oversight thread)

[Lurch]

(06-23-2009 08:30 AM)hugbug Wrote:  Actually it's very easy to change the script and hard code the path to config file to eliminate the usage of "dirname". However it would mean that you need to do that every time when create a package for a new version.
I'm sure it is possible to replace "dirname" with "awk", but I'm not that good at shell scripting.

Installing a better version of busybox which includes dirname is probably the easiest solution for NMT.

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(06-22-2009 09:54 PM)Lurch Wrote:  last night my usenet provider switched from SSL to SSL2.
Nzbget doesn't like that at all and now cannot connect to the server any longer.

Any error messages? Have you tested from PC (with NZBGet for Windows or any other usenet downloader)?

This was the error mesage I got from NZBGet:
"Could not establish secure connection: TLS handshake failed: Connection reset by peer."

Newsbin Pro v5.35 also did not connect when SSL was enabled and there were multiple reports of this on the provider's forum.
Grabit 1.7.2 Beta 3 does work with SSL enabled though, seems to have no problems

[say170]

I'm having performance problems with 0.7x

I've tried the latest CSI release, and get around 450-500 kb/s d/l speed.
I removed it and went back to the 0.6x release available on CSI and still the d/l speed was the same.
When removing that and going back to the 0.51 release, performance is back up to

average download rate: 728 KB/s (that's for a 6.8gb file)

Is there something I'm missing in the conf file. All I did was to copy the entries from .51 release into the .60/.70 releases for server configuration - the rest is as default. I'm using SSL and 4 connections to two different servers - both level 0. I tried reducing server connections, but that made it slower.

Any ideas - or should I just stick with 0.51 ?

[lordy]

The latest nzbget is also using 2-3% CPU when idle which doesnt seem right?

Code:

1377  1369 nmt      R     4748   5%   2% /share/Apps/NZBget/bin/nzbget -D -c /share/Apps/NZBget/.nzbget/nzbget.conf

Code:

#  /share/Apps/NZBget/bin/nzbget -c /share/Apps/NZBget/.nzbget/nzbget.conf -L
Request sent
Server has no files queued for download
Current download rate: 0.0 KB/s
Session download rate: 318.1 KB/s
Up time: 15:14:34
Download time: 02:23:04
Downloaded: 2666.87 MB
Threads running: 4
Server state: Stand-By

[Ger Teunis]

Is that continuous. NZBget it is inspecting the NZB folder every now and then for new nzb files.

[hugbug]

(07-07-2009 11:34 AM)say170 Wrote:  I've tried the latest CSI release, and get around 450-500 kb/s d/l speed.
I removed it and went back to the 0.6x release available on CSI and still the d/l speed was the same.

Please compare the performance of the following two binaries:
1) nzbget-0.6.0-bin-nmt-mipsel - that binary was built with standard toolchain and it uses system libraries;
2) nzbget-0.6.0-bin-static-mipsel - that one was built with optware toolchain and it doesn't use system libraries.

Install them over 0.5.1. You have to use telnet for that.

[lordy]

(07-07-2009 11:54 AM)Ger Teunis Wrote:  Is that continuous. NZBget it is inspecting the NZB folder every now and then for new nzb files.

That was with nzbdir interval of 5. I've changed it to 20 , and if I run top it will use 2% for one cycle then drop down for about the next 5 seconds or so, then back up again.

Not to much to worry about but still a lot for an idle application (esp on NMT )

[say170]

(07-07-2009 12:51 PM)hugbug Wrote:  Please compare the performance of the following two binaries:
1) nzbget-0.6.0-bin-nmt-mipsel - that binary was built with standard toolchain and it uses system libraries;
2) nzbget-0.6.0-bin-static-mipsel - that one was built with optware toolchain and it doesn't use system libraries.

Here are my overall results... I used a 103mb file and kept the same .conf file for all three tests.. this produced an informational error about an outdated parm, (Option "PostLogKind" is obsolete) but it worked fine....

These are the peak download rates as shown against the bar for the 30 second updates:

0.51 ........... 723-735 Kb/s - overall 643Kb/s 2m46s
0.60 standard 681-691 Kb/s - overall 660Kb/s 2m41s
0.60 optware 665-695 Kb/s - overall 586Kb/2 3m02s

I tried to do the tests more than once each. The highest peak download rates were consistently with 0.51. However, the overall time doesn't show that, although I'm not convinced that that isn't down to the update frequency.

[hugbug]

Thanks for testing.

Anyway it looks like the optware-binary is less effective.

However two minutes is probably too little to make a conclusion. Could you make a test with a bigger download, say 1GB? Without any pars and postprocessing. The reported average download speed is accurate to be used for comparision. You don't have to use stopwatch

Also:
- do not use web-interface during testing. PHP needs to many resources and can effect results. Use command "nzbget -L S" to monitor the nzbget server;
- put NMT into sleep mode (power button on remote control) to prevent screensaver from launching. It eats way to many CPU time.

[say170]

(07-08-2009 11:54 AM)hugbug Wrote:  Thanks for testing.

Anyway it looks like the optware-binary is less effective.

However two minutes is probably too little to make a conclusion. Could you make a test with a bigger download, say 1GB? Without any pars and postprocessing. The reported average download speed is accurate to be used for comparision. You don't have to use stopwatch

Also:
- do not use web-interface during testing. PHP needs to many resources and can effect results. Use command "nzbget -L S" to monitor the nzbget server;
- put NMT into sleep mode (power button on remote control) to prevent screensaver from launching. It eats way to many CPU time.

This will take a little while... I'll run the test overnight - this will a few nights to complete.

[hugbug]

(07-08-2009 01:22 PM)say170 Wrote:  this will a few nights to complete.

why few nights? 1GB with 600 KB/s should be completed in approx. 30 minutes.

[say170]

ok, here are the results:

nzb0.5.1 - 732 KB/s 1.21Gb 28m59s
nzb0.60std - 696 KB/s 1.21Gb 30m25s
nzb0.60opt - 688 KB/s 1.21Gb 30m53s