Newsman Pro 3.0.7.1 Beta Released

[administrator]

New in this release:

* Merged Bandwidth Meter and Layouts toolwindows into the main menu dock area so that they can be dragged into the same line as the menu. If you had these placed in a custom position, this change may reset them to their new default positions.

* Fixed a bug introduced in 3.0.7.0 that caused automation rules to post an erroneous "Unable to MOVE headers to subfolder" error message.

* Added an alternate article grouping algorithm that groups articles based on the number of matching characters in the first nnn characters of the subject. This is a simpler grouping mechanism and can be used for Workgroups containing articles that won't group properly using the standard method. For this grouping method, grouping threshold is "matching percentage". The Sender must also match.

* Modified the time between checks for updates from 30 days to 14 days.

Regards

[BZB]

I've experienced some periods of CPU usage hitting off the roof, and some increasing memory usage, particularly when downloading/saving out of the db. Can you check if it's a memory leak? The mem/cpu usage on 3062 seems to be quite a bit less for the NMP executable.

[administrator]

What OS are you using?

Regards

[BZB]

[administrator]

OK. I'm not seeing any memory differences on Vista. However, there are several new Win7 features that are only loaded when Win7 is detected. That may be where the new memory usage is coming from. As far as a leak goes, I have this version running 24/7 and haven't seen any memory leaks at all. I typically see between 50 and 200MB, with the higher end being when headers are getting processed. Memory always drops back down though, over time.

The only change that I can think of in the binary download process is the change to the unrar process, but it was very minor. If that was where the leak was I should see it too as I don't have "Overwrite existing files" enabled.

I'll keep an eye on mine, but if you could make sure there is no other change to your system that may be affecting memory or CPU, like a change to your antivirus, that would help. Any additional data you can gather may help as well.

Regards

[BZB]

I'll keep an eye on it and see if I can pin it down to something more definite.

[haraldh]

i downloaded the latest beta 3.0.7.1 yesterday.

i just wanted to applaud the new taskbar feature that allows to pause and resume a download. a really good idea! well done.

i am also using win7 x64 but - so far - i am not seeing any memory issues or high cpu usages. will report when i do.

[administrator]

Just a followup:

I've run this beta under a memory checker (two actually) and there were no new memory leaks found. There are a couple of "leaks" that have been around for a very long time, but they are quite small and may be misreported as they are objects that cache their own memory space (like the in-memory queue cache).

Regards

[PorcPuff]

Nice to see it's still being worked on after this many years. It must be due a big birthday soon

I've got just one quick request - the scheduler is supposed to check the watch-folder for new files every minute, but sometimes, if you have woke the PC from hibernation or suspend mode, it will wait several minutes before processing new files.

Is there any tweaks you could make to any future betas to ensure it doesn't miss any checks? It's been in all versions I can remember, but thought I'd mention it here as I see you're working on some new beta builds.

Cheers.

[PorcPuff]

Oh, and will keep an eye on the CPU usage / memory usage on this new beta to see if I get the same results as BZB.

[administrator]

[PorcPuff]

I'm surprised it was every 5 minutes - it always felt like it came round quicker than that. Thanks for the command line. I'll drop that in and test it.

[BZB]