Download speed xxx B/s ?

[Ben Groen]

I am using version 0.7.9 and see on the screen in Status or Queue a download speed of say 193 B/s. I saw that also with other versions.

The numbers change quite a bit, but remain 3 digits, xxx B/s

Then at a certain time it changes to 1.0 MB/s or more (1.4 MB/s …. 1.6 MB/s).

I do not know what the xxx B/s means, it could not be 193 Bytes per second, because when I refresh the page I see about 1MB disappear from the queue every second or so.

When this download 4.2G is finished I see that it took 53 minutes and 22 seconds to download. If I say there is only 1 MB/s it should take about 71 minutes, so the average shown, 1.3 MB/s is correct.

Just don’t know why the M is missing (or the K)… or how to correct that.

Version 0.7.9
Install Windows Installer
Skin normal
Windows XP Sp3
Windows Firewall
IPV6 (don’t know what this is)
Reproducible, yes

[sander]

Do you have "Check before download" (aka pre-download check) turned on? If so, that's the explanation: the check only takes a few bytes per article.

[Ben Groen]

Hi Sander

Yes its checked. So SABnzbd checks to see (I guess) that a article is complete before attempting to download it. Sounds OK.
But you mean I should turn it off.

I cannot image that it takes so long to check that though, the B/s stay there for at least 5 or more minutes... But I will turn it off and see what happens! Thanks for the tip!

Ben

[sander]

Hi Sander

But you mean I should turn it off.

Certainly not! The pre-check is a great feature, so I would leave it on.

However, the reporting is a bit confusing. As your question proves. It would be better that instead of the low byte counter there would be a word "checking" in that text area.

[Ben Groen]

So Sander I tried that, but keep getting the low speed (now in the xx's such as 50 B/s and 54 B/s and so forth). But when I look at the files being downloaded the remaining total lowers with at least 1 MB every second.
So it does not seem to be that, no change.

I have been looking now for 8 minutes, and its still giving me (what I think are Byte counts) in the 30 to 40 range, which is not correct. I had this with version 0.7.4 also, thats one reason I changed to 9, but no help.
Will try to look and see when it gives the correct download byte count.

[Ben Groen]

OK, Sander, sorry I guess I did not see your last answer, so I am turning it back on.

[Ben Groen]

Its been now 50 minutes, download is 2.6GB from 3.8GB. Showing now B/s in the 50-60 range.
No xx MB/s seen...

[sander]

OK, then let's do this:

while the speed indicator is low, hover your mouse above the name of the download. What does it say? "Checking"? Or "missing articles: xyz"? ...

[Ben Groen]

Right now the Download speed is : 538KB/s which is normal because I have a variable speed from the provider. When I hover the mouse over the names I don't get anything at all.
Also, all my downloads come through ok, no problems there.

The variable speed that I get from my provider is never xx B/s, he is my friend and had never seen that. I think it is only the display that is fault in some way, because when a article is finished SABnzbd reports a good download speed.

[sander]

If you think only the *presentation* is incorrect, you can do this:

set SAB's logging to DEBUG, restart SABnzbd, do a full download, and then inspect sabnzbd.log: find bpsmeter. That is the speed in bits-per-second.

Below you will find the relevant from my sabnzbd.log: first while pre-check is running (so: very low bps), then the real download (high bps).

HTH

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$ cat sabnzbd.log | grep -i -e bpsmeter -e "Send to"

2013-01-25 18:54:40,756::INFO::[growler:267] Send to NotifyOSD: NZB added to queue / pdtv dutch.nzb
2013-01-25 18:54:44,145::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 3940.56094535
2013-01-25 18:54:49,151::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1582.15140206
2013-01-25 18:54:54,158::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 635.105754188
2013-01-25 18:54:59,164::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 254.956773061
2013-01-25 18:55:04,171::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 102.345927257
2013-01-25 18:55:09,178::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 41.0835814601
2013-01-25 18:55:14,599::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 148.548714168
2013-01-25 18:55:19,604::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 59.6490516292
2013-01-25 18:55:24,611::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 23.9447218865
2013-01-25 18:55:29,617::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 9.61331444526
2013-01-25 18:55:34,623::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 3.85938591636
2013-01-25 18:55:39,629::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1.54930548097
2013-01-25 18:55:45,301::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 401.910403425
2013-01-25 18:55:50,308::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 161.335175894
2013-01-25 18:55:55,315::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 64.7628551937
2013-01-25 18:56:00,322::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 25.9974441759
2013-01-25 18:56:05,328::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 10.435935947
2013-01-25 18:56:10,335::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 4.1896341436
2013-01-25 18:56:15,626::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 165.904364813
2013-01-25 18:56:20,632::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 66.6076734508
2013-01-25 18:56:25,638::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 26.741481148
2013-01-25 18:56:30,645::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 10.7346732749
2013-01-25 18:56:35,651::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 4.30991117293
2013-01-25 18:56:40,657::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1.7301215356
2013-01-25 18:56:46,115::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 143.111694902
2013-01-25 18:56:51,122::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 57.4483874313
2013-01-25 18:56:56,128::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 23.0622693992
2013-01-25 18:57:01,135::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 9.25751792259
2013-01-25 18:57:06,141::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 3.71644888126
2013-01-25 18:57:11,148::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1.4919248366
2013-01-25 18:57:16,200::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 8.68549547321
2013-01-25 18:57:21,206::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 3.48689495775
2013-01-25 18:57:26,212::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1.39984424241
2013-01-25 18:57:31,219::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 0.561935501049
2013-01-25 18:57:37,002::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 5.12237424811
2013-01-25 18:57:42,009::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2.05611426802
2013-01-25 18:57:47,017::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 0.825181971852
2013-01-25 18:57:52,024::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 0.331244337629
2013-01-25 18:57:57,971::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 5.86257210119
2013-01-25 18:58:02,977::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2.35341923901
2013-01-25 18:58:07,984::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 0.944754928399
2013-01-25 18:58:12,991::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 0.37924876739
2013-01-25 18:58:17,999::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 0.152209741035
2013-01-25 18:58:23,005::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 0.0611027242457
2013-01-25 18:58:28,012::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 0.0245281752517
2013-01-25 18:58:48,634::INFO::[growler:267] Send to NotifyOSD: NZB added to queue / pdtv dutch.nzb
2013-01-25 18:59:01,646::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2158585.81784
2013-01-25 18:59:06,673::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2054987.39317
2013-01-25 18:59:11,674::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1690617.31406
2013-01-25 18:59:16,676::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1908829.77561
2013-01-25 18:59:21,677::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2069525.05747
2013-01-25 18:59:26,680::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1871123.58047
2013-01-25 18:59:31,682::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2001877.85853
2013-01-25 18:59:36,683::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2065161.61482
2013-01-25 18:59:41,683::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1880914.55276
2013-01-25 18:59:46,684::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2019825.58545
2013-01-25 18:59:51,697::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2228438.31847
2013-01-25 18:59:56,697::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2282175.59661
2013-01-25 19:00:01,698::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2265392.09488
2013-01-25 19:00:06,699::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2161998.13615
2013-01-25 19:00:11,700::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2027125.73276
2013-01-25 19:00:16,701::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2221178.07174
2013-01-25 19:00:21,703::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2186620.58849
2013-01-25 19:00:26,704::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 2140175.72805
2013-01-25 19:00:31,945::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1320424.21112
2013-01-25 19:00:36,962::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 559265.263268
2013-01-25 19:00:41,962::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1369693.43266
2013-01-25 19:00:46,969::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1884182.88714
2013-01-25 19:00:51,970::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 1720706.22037
2013-01-25 19:00:56,990::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 718472.496432
2013-01-25 19:01:02,007::DEBUG::[bpsmeter:253] bps: 323056.078019
2013-01-25 19:01:03,701::INFO::[growler:267] Send to NotifyOSD: Post-processing / pdtv dutch
2013-01-25 19:01:08,410::INFO::[growler:267] Send to NotifyOSD: Download Completed / pdtv dutch