Patch shipped: v1.6.153 — SABnzbd no longer drops connections or stalls mid-download
Posted by tomspark
Heads up — just shipped v1.6.153 with a fix for the SABnzbd "keeps losing connection / downloads never finish" symptom a couple of you reported this week. What was wrong: SAB was running with a tight resource ceiling (256MB RAM, half a CPU core) that's fine for the lightweight apps but way too small for what SAB actually does — par2 verification, unrar/7z extraction, and a bunch of simultaneous Usenet connections at once. It was choking under its own ration; connections timed out and it looked like a VPN issue from the outside. What's fixed: SAB now runs with 1GB RAM and 2 CPU cores — same tier as Jellyfin. Run sudo sparkbox update on your box to pull it; SAB will recreate with the new limits on the next start. Big thanks to currentlylive and gdavidson26 for the detailed reports — currentlylive's Portainer workaround was the smoking gun that confirmed the root cause.