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Bandwidth throttle not working, Exit issues if paused
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:41 am
by bhw
I am trying to use the bandwudth throttle in the Tasks options page but it doesn't seem to work now I have switched to the 64-bit version of the program. Nothing happens whatever I set the values to.
If tasks are pending and you manually "Pause" then exit UE, it does the following...
"Shutdown - Aborting tasks"
...hangs for ages...
"Emergency shutdown"
The above does not occur if the Scheduler pauses tasks. Thsi has been happening for a while in both the 32 and 64 bit versions.
Keep up the good work Alex, UE just keeps getting better and better!
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:44 am
by alex
but it is all in the same windows?
it must be antivirus/firewall issue.
which one are you using? if it happened right after UE update try redefine UE in the firewall/antivirus definitions.
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:25 am
by bhw
Vista Ultimate x64
McAfee 8.7
Bandwidth simply does nothing if set in the 64-bit version. Works fine in 32-bit.
I have seen Shutdown, aborting tasks issue on WinXP-32 and Vista-U64 on UE versions going way back.
I'll try disabling AV and test again, but I'm unsure how it would affect exiting or bandwidth throttling.
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:26 am
by bhw
Sorry, forgot to mention, only running Windows firewall.
Also, I've excluded UE.exe and all it's folders from being scanned.
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:47 am
by alex
it is not related to scanning folders.
the reason is winsock doesn't close sockets when it should, instead of that AV hangs the threads, UE waits for them to be closed for some time, when they are not it invokes emergency shutdown.
does AV scan NNTP traffic or in general UE traffic? if so can you try to exclude it from scanning?
it may help or not, but given no other complaints might be something which is possible to fix. it is some faulty dll hook which hangs threads, the current socket operation doesn't exit.
bandwidth throttle appears to be working fine, i've just checked it in 64 bit XP, at least i see the pause button working, cannot think why it wouldn't, check you don't have scheduler enabled properties->scheduler, its bandwidth overrides the bandwidth set in properties->tasks and the pause bandwidth overrides everything.