Running SABnzbd on low powered devices (router, NAS etc.)

[Softcox]

I have an Asus RT-N16 (480mhz CPU, 128MB RAM) running the TomatoUSB firmware and SABnzbd, along with SickBeard, actually runs pretty well. It's definitely slower downloading than on my Mac (~1MBps max vs 1.6MBps) and par2 checks are obviously quite slow, however it's definitely usable and I can shut down my Mac overnight now and let the router chug along.

So far I have done the following

* Running SABnzbd with "nice -19" prefix. IONice doesn't seem to be available on the firmware I'm using unfortunately (only kernels after a certain version support it).
* Limiting overall connections to around 10. I could disable SSL as well but I would prefer to sacrifice some speed
* Article Cache Limit: 16M
* Watch Folder Scan Speed: 60
* Pause Downloading During Post-Processing: enabled
* Only Get Articles for Top of Queue: enabled

Are there any recommended settings for this kind of setup? I'm willing to modify the python source if necessary

[sander]

SABnzbd runs well on a 128MB RAM machine? Interesting! That means it could also run on the 35 USD Raspberry Pi (with 256MB RAM). See http://www.raspberrypi.org/

And as the RasPi has output to S-Video and HDMI, it could be a low-cost media downloader & player ...

[Softcox]

Not sure I'd say it runs "well" but it does work. That raspberry thing looks interesting too

[uncola]

I used to run sabnbzd on a qnap 2 bay nas. it had an 800mhz arm cpu and 256mb ram.. it ran well until it had to use the par2 files.. or if I was downloading something made of extra large rar files.. then it really bogged down... eventually I couldn't take it and now I run sabnzbd on a mac mini.. I'm thinking about getting another nas.. looks like arm nas cpus are up to 2ghz.. the other choice would be to get a dual atom based nas.. they seem to use a lot of power though

[Softcox]

A mini would be perfect but I can't really justify the cost, especially leaving it running constantly. I think I'll stick to the Asus for now and just deal with the slowness. I might try NZBget too in case a native program is faster. I assume Python has some overheads.

[bbaraniec]

For the cost of mini you could get a low budget nas with hard drives or really nice device without drives

[sander]

I used to run sabnbzd on a qnap 2 bay nas. it had an 800mhz arm cpu and 256mb ram.. it ran well until it had to use the par2 files.. or if I was downloading something made of extra large rar files.. then it really bogged down

Ah, good point. I've a low-CPU low-Mem system at home (HDX-1000 with some MIPS-processor), and downloading itself is at line speed, but par/rar can take 8 hours or so ...

As soon as I've got the Raspberry Pi, I'll measure the results ...

[uncola]

The mini is actually a great deal because it will also be your HTPC and has a built in remote for xbmc/boxee etc. But you have to be ok with not having much disk space. Mine idles at 11watts.. incredibly low.. it sleeps at 0 watts. I used the newest killawatt tester thing to measure it. My old htpc used about 50 watts idling.. and it was a small miniitx system with integrated gpu and two 3.5" hard drives.

This thread inspired me to order a synology ds1511+ used direct from amazon warehouse deals. it's a 5 bay dual atom NAS you can upgrade the ram to 3GB on. I'm going to use the mac mini only for an htpc now.. the NAS will be my sabnzbd/smb share device.. hopefully I won't have to leave it on all the time since it has wake on lan.. my router's webgui has a nice wake on lan page I can use to turn it on whenever I want to start downloading stuff.. I have a asus rt-n16 too but I'm running toastman's tomatousb on it

[Softcox]

I just tried switching to non-SSL connections and I'm now getting around ~1MB/s speeds compared to 500KB/s with SSL. The SSL overhead must be pretty taxing on embedded CPUs.

[bry]

softcox, mind posting a quick set of instructions/steps to get this going?

[chowyungfatso]

Anyone tried running this on the RT-N66U?

Also, what package did you use for optware?