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Computer slows when "Rebilding" in download manager

  • 07-06-2009 7:58pm
    #1
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I use Internet Download Manager to download from Rapidshare etc

    When it has downloaded a part file, it goes into "rebuilding" for a good while each file, and my pc slows down a lot when it does this. Is this normal?

    Is it just IDM or do they all do this?
    Dell Dimension 5000, P4 3.4, 3gb ram, XP Home


Comments

  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    When you say "good while" do you mean 3/5 minutes or a lot more?


  • #3
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Yeah a couple of minutes each or so


  • #4
    JethroC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭JethroC


    I use IDM too...it does the exact same on my machine. It does this because it downloads a file from multiple sources and when the file has finished downloading it needs to 'rebuild' all those pieces back into one file which is the file you were originally downloading.


  • #5
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Cheers. I find it annoying how it does not tell the next file in the queue to start downloading again until it is finished rebuilding the last one.


  • #6
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Zascar wrote: »
    Cheers. I find it annoying how it does not tell the next file in the queue to start downloading again until it is finished rebuilding the last one.

    This done 1. to avoid any data flowing conflicts. 2. the RAM of the pc is hogged by the CPU anyway as its rebuilding a (single) file at a time.

    My download manager does the same as well by the way. Depending on the quality of the download, the way the original creator has broken the file up (and in how many parts) and saved it, all adds to the quality and speed of the rebuild at the other end.

    If any rebuild takes more than 5 to ten minutes, then there is definitely something wrong to be honest.


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