I've been using Alt.Binz for more than a few years now, always through wine because my main OS of choice is Linux (Gentoo to be precise).
However I have noticed that the later versions have a couple issues with regards to Wine. I don't know how much of this is to blame on Wine or Alt.Binz but I thought I'd share it here as well in order to kind of "gauge" the amount of people that also have these issues over here.
Recent wine versions (~5.11 and up) have a couple of issues with Alt.Binz.
For example, when downloading stuff the status graphic doesn't show the speed of said thread, but 0kB/s. The CPU usage is incredibly high for its throughput and I'm only getting ~4.2-4.3MB/s download on my R7 3700x. The CPU usage is at 400-500% when using 10 threads.
(Eweka, SSL)
Whereas if I use a sample nzb to test the speed on my older AMD Phenom II x4 955 (slightly underclocked due to chip degradation/temps/... to 3.0Ghz) I get 7-10MB/s.
I'm on a 100Mbit connection and given the fact that I've experienced this on not just 1 occasion but ever since I've installed the newer Wine versions I'm guessing Wine's to blame here.
My current Wine version is 5.13 (with staging patches applied) on Gentoo. Article cache set to 2GB and 10 threads to eweka (over SSL).
https://i.imgur.com/hZcl9gJ.pngApparently I've managed to get up to 4.6 for that screenshot but usually get a bit lower, the CPU usage is at 460-470% at the moment.
So long story short, I'm kind of expecting this to be a Wine issue but am just interested to see if it maybe isn't fully Wine to blame?
I'm currently installing a Wine 5.0.1 (without staging patches) and will report back if that has the same results.
