Unbelievable discrepancy - Download counter

[vseera]

Hi,

I am using 5.54 version of Newsbin pro.

In the download counters below in status bar, 29.84GB is remaining in the download queue. After that, in a session, I downloaded about 9.16GB and the download queue just went down to 29.12GB???

Also, I have downloaded about 85.23GB total as of date. However, my downloads folder only has about 14GB of stuff in it.

I have check for duplicates turned off.

This program is killing my monthly usage cap.

Earlier, I was using a free program called GrabIt and that never had this issue.

What seems to be the problem and how can I resolve this?

Any help would be really appreciated!

[richy99]

i doubt it is showing that is is off by about 71gig, do you have autodownload on?

download something like dumeter to monitor the speed and bandwidth externally, sounds like something is seriously wrong on the setup, you might also want to update to 5.55

[itimpi]

Do not forget that if you are downloading any headers this will not show in the Download queue size. Some of the larger groups can easily result in several GB of headers being downloaded.

[vseera]

I think there is something majorly wrong as well. I am going to update to 5.55 and report back on what I find.

Btw, I am using supernews.com as my usenet provider.

I understand that headers take up a larger size, specially for huge groups. However, I have only downloaded headers about 5-6 days back. Ever since then, I have been downloading the articles. So no headers have been downloaded recently.

Autodownload is not on. But the numbers I am reporting are true. Any given time, I can download a few GBs in a session and my download queue remaining items go down like half a GB or less.
It is frustrating. I have minimum failed files (maybe around 5-10).

[richy99]

is there anything odd about your setup? such as running in a virtual machine?

[vseera]

No, I am running on a Core 2 Duo 2.4 ghz machine with 3gb ram. I am running Windows 7 64bit edition Professional.

Btw, I was testing 5.55 right now and it looks to be the same.

The download queue had 27.16GB remaining. After downloading 500MB in this session, the download queue shows 27.14GB remaining.
So according to it, I have downloaded 20MB.

If it was working fine, it should have shown 26.66GB ideally.

I really appreciate the help guys, any more ideas are greatly welcome! In trying to download 50GB off usenet, I am already very close to my monthly 100GB cap right now and I think I will well overshoot it by the time Newsbin gets done.

[Quade]

Where are you looking? Click on the servers button and you'll see a total per server which you can reset.

I'm not answering your email because you're getting answers here.

[vseera]

Hi Quade,

I am looking at the servers window, which gives me the total downloaded for a server as well as the status bar at the bottom. The extreme left counter gives the total downloaded as well. I can reset this, but that's not my problem.

Dexter answered my email, but he brings up the headers issue, which was already brought up here.

Can you help me?

P.S. I know I have been told to monitor overall bandwidth usage with DUMeter. The thing is, I have a 2mbps connection. If I leave it overnight, Newsbin tells me it downloaded about 8-9GB. Which sounds about right with my connection. However, the total GBs left to download don't go down by much and there's not much in my downloads folder as well.
BUT, it does seem to have downloaded about 8-9GB as it has had my connection maxed out all along.

[Quade]

I'm not seeing a problem so, help will be problematic. Maybe there's something actually wrong with your setup that doesn't happen to me. Do you get any errors in the logging tab?

I cleared the download counts, downloaded a 173 meg file and the downloaded amount in the server window went up 173 megs. So, for me, I'm not seeing it. How about you try that. Pause all downloads, clear all the counts and let one file download.

[vseera]

Ok, so magically (maybe you are sending me some good vibes ), the problem seems to have cleared up.

I am using the 5.55 beta right now. It seems that the problem was with one particular binary group, maybe files were just getting stuck on it.
I saw some files in the download queue which were 256.0/21.0 MB. So things were definitely screwed up.

So I deleted all the files in the downloads queue of that group, deleted that group off the list.

And now, Newsbin seems to be happily downloading from the rest of the groups with no errors in the counters.

Again, to clarify, my problem was not with the queue counter. I don't really care about that.
My problem was that, for some reason, Newsbin was actually downloading about 9GB of data and showing only about 400MB downloaded for it. And it was taking the same amount of time it would take to download about 9GB of data, so it was actually downloading it. But the downloads queue counter would only go down a little bit and there wouldn't be 9GB of stuff in the downloads folder.

I am sorry if I can't explain it more clearly.

But anyway...as I mentioned, the problem seems to have been only with that one particular group.

Thanks for all the support, this forum is very active and I am glad to be a customer of Newsbin

[richy99]

sounds like the posts were screwed up

[itimpi]

Note that the queue counter shows the size reported in the headers, not the real size on the server. When newsbin actually tries to download the file it can find the file is a different size than the headers report. In such a case the counter showing the amount downloaded should be correct, but the download queue counter will only decrement by the size reported in the headers.