Slow unpacking after upgrading to OS X 10.9

[jojowasher]

I upgraded to OS X 10.9 a couple days ago, and ever since the unpacking phase in sabnzbd is taking forever! I downloaded a 3GB file, and it took 3 hours to unpack... just a small 400mb file takes about 5 minutes, used to take 10 seconds.

I have reinstalled sabnzbd, that didn't help.

When I look at my system info the CPU, memory and hard drive are all barely working, and I am downloading and extracting to the local computer, a nice fast SSD.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jojo

[shypike]

Unpacking is done by unrar.
We'll soon add the latest release to SABnzbd.
Maybe that will help.

[Strakekine]

Hi all
Until now i never had a problem with sabnzbd.
But i updated to osx 10.9 yesterday nd since then sabnzbd is very slow in post processing espescially unpacking...
Hope it is a known error and you can help??
When is this new version coming you are talking about?
Thanks mate

[shypike]

When is this new version coming you are talking about?

When it's ready. Disappointing answer I know.
Testing this kind of stuff is just time consuming.
And then there's Windows 8.1 also

[milly123]

Hey guys,

I just wanted to let you know I am also experiencing this on osx 10.9

Any updates on when this may be fixed?

cheers
milly

[ernine]

I haven't had problems extracting locally like the OP; it's across the network I've had problems with 10.9 - files download locally to Mac then extract Mac -> Time Capsule router/switch -> DNS-325 NAS and take 10x as long as they should.

It's a problem with unrar rather than sabnzbd itself, and using the latest version of unrar doesn't help either. A workaround is to extract files locally and then copy them to their destination on the network - shypike mentioned in another thread possibly adding this as a config switch - but I suppose it could also be done by a post-processing script.

[Strakekine]

Not sure, because my destination network for the download is not locally but stright away on the NAS where they should be extracted...
Or maybe i don't understand it right? Is the problem more when the unpacking is done over network or locally?

Did anyone also notice that the download itself takes longer? As long as i don't do anything else on my mac it downloads full speed, but as soon as something else is going on i notice extreme download speed drop downs at a point where it doesn't download at all until i stop what i was doing....
Anyone too?

[shypike]

[quote="Strakekine"]
Did anyone also notice that the download itself takes longer?/quote]

Not on my system.
I upgraded my old 2010 miniMac and (while overall a bit slower) it doesn't show
the behaviour that you mention.
I'm always using a wired connection, WiFi is not recommended for Usenet downloading.

[milly123]

so my mac mini and NAS are wired via 1gb switch. Before I upgraded to osx 10.9 I had the same sabnzbd settings as now, which are as follows -
- incomplete folder on my NAS
- Complete folder on my NAS
When unpacking it was lightning fast, same speed as if unpacking to my local disk.

Now after upgrading to osx 10.9 I have noticed it is extremely slow when unpacking my files... for a 2GB file it took around 38 minutes.

I did a test and changed the folders to local disk, for both the 'incomplete and complete' folder and again it was lightning fast.

Nothing has changed - except upgrading my mac mini to osx 10.9, so I am assuming this is the issue...

FYI - Nas is - Synology 1813+

Cheers,
Milan

[Strakekine]

so my mac mini and NAS are wired via 1gb switch. Before I upgraded to osx 10.9 I had the same sabnzbd settings as now, which are as follows -
- incomplete folder on my NAS
- Complete folder on my NAS
When unpacking it was lightning fast, same speed as if unpacking to my local disk.

Now after upgrading to osx 10.9 I have noticed it is extremely slow when unpacking my files... for a 2GB file it took around 38 minutes.

I did a test and changed the folders to local disk, for both the 'incomplete and complete' folder and again it was lightning fast.

Nothing has changed - except upgrading my mac mini to osx 10.9, so I am assuming this is the issue...

FYI - Nas is - Synology 1813+

Cheers,
Milan

I have the same NAS configuration (incomplete&complete on NAS)! Will try to change it this WE just to see if it gets fast again...
P.S: is there a switch so that the finished, unrared file is automatically copied to NAS??

Download speed speaking I want to clarify that the speed is still the same when I don't use the computer for other stuff than sabnzb...as soon as i do other stuff on it, the speed drops fast...
Thanks

[ernine]

Fwiw, I have "incomplete" locally and "complete" on NAS for most of my categories, which avoids disk thrashing. It only runs into problems when an archive needs repair, par2 repair being very I/O heavy! Ideally I could use separate download, repair and extraction locations.

For this 10.9 unrar problem I don't think it matters - it's the writing to a remote drive that's slow for unrar, irrespective of where the archive is being read from.

[milly123]

I think for now I will just have everything local and copy it to my NAS as required.

osx 10.9 sucks IMO... everything seems worse for me

[Strakekine]

Didn't have the time to try."...will do this WE, but you are right:
Sabnzbd is slower
XBMC is slower
So mavericks sucks for me:-(

[shypike]

So mavericks sucks for me:-(

Recent hardware?
So far, I've only upgraded my old miniMac, but SABnzbd doesn't seem
to be noticabally slower.
I'll continue testing.

[Strakekine]

I have a late 2012 macmini, so it should be "Newer" than yours;-)!
Where do you extract your files? Locally or NAS?