"Murdoch Mysteries S8D1 [00/80] - \"….nzb\"" beside its "[01/94]" upload
was a release of its own (23k sidecar-only releases on the corpus, 15k with
the poster's bigger release within 10 minutes). The settler queues small
settled releases (fold_candidates); the merger's third pass folds one whose
files are all sidecars into the poster's bigger release in the same group
within 10 minutes: the one sharing a 4+ letter word with its subject, else
the one under the same counter total, else none (via 'sidecar').
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Voyager 1's second filter (D42) for voyager 2. Hourly, in order (the first
rule wins): dead (every probed first article gone), fake (a film, episode or
music name whose content is a program: archive entries all executables, or
the file itself by name or sniffed exe), repeated (the same first 16 KiB and
size in 20+ releases), locked (passworded, no password known), unusable
(random names, no inner name, no merge, no spot, a day after settling).
Verdicts in release_verdicts (rule, version) hide releases from search
(judged shows them); a verdict whose rule no longer matches is taken back.
Nothing dropped yet. Service judge; releases:judge --once --dry counts.
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For the junk judge: a "movie" whose first bytes are a program is fake.
Two bytes alone match random data too often, so the PE signature where the
DOS header points must be there too. No PROBE_VERSION bump: new probes only.
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After reset 24 the catalog grew ~3.7 GB an hour (77 GB, root 31 GB free, 600k
history ranges to go). CATALOG_MAX_NVME_GB (as voyager 1's
BACKFILL_MAX_NVME_GB): once the default tablespace is over it, leases and the
prefetcher take priority < 0 only (the tail, the stored ranges); measured once
a minute. Off when unset; 90 on homelab.
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208ca1d's volume of 3-5 digits after a digit (YME's "CHT PCK 2 9.26.001")
also took versions for volumes: "K-ML 3.8.233", "3.8.239", "3.8.241" and
Kaizen's "v2.0.1021" ... "v2.0.1057" became one release (505 names on the
corpus). The random name's volumes with their own extensions stay.
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- "df2BkeRxIvHcWrsWwwz.part01.cer" … ".part69.bdmv", "jA0eSSUMat8tQtIKUyPMA.part01":
obfuscators give each volume its own extension (or none); for a random name
(no dots or spaces) .partNN and that extension go.
- "(????) [0001/1009] - "CHT PCK 2 9.26.001"": a volume of 3-5 digits after a
dot counts with a digit before it too (5,419 single files of YME).
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f1c5af5's set head (an image's name up to its first number) split sets whose
images aren't named alike: "a1.jpg" beside "a1 (2).jpg", and "468_1000.jpg"
whose first number is the image's (1 release became 211 and 161 on the
corpus). The random volume stem stays. Tests keep both sets whole.
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- "[ TOWN ] [ www town ag ] [ TV ] … "Z3mMTMPsoT4ikE_Di3fKnNF21.part01.rar"",
"….vol4+4.par2": the subject and the total were the key, so every upload of
a total was one release (2,338 files for 20; also partner-of-ssl-news,
brothers-of-usenet). A random stem (no dots or spaces) on a volume file
joins the subject key; a scene name doesn't, so its nfo stays.
- "Molly Set [i/50] "mo103x003.jpg"": every set of 50 was one. An image's
name up to its first number, when another follows, joins the key.
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"[…/559] - "lop1001.jpg"", "pic004.jpg", "DSC_0002[1].jpg", and tracks
"r86_022 - Gwen Guthrie - ….mp3" ("r"): the stem route keyed them by the
letters before the number alone, so every post of a poster was one release
(5,731 images for 559; 6,433 tracks for 457). Under a counter its total is
part of the key; a cover named as its archive's stem keeps the stem's key.
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A spot older than what the catalog has indexed (the spotter's first backfill
reaches back ~3 months) matched nothing and would have become a release of
its own, a duplicate once the history pass builds the upload. Unmatched
spots are matched again in turns (rematched_at) for 30 days; the 24 h before
a standalone release count from the inspection; a later match deletes the
spot's own release and links the header pass's.
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Two processes, one NNTP connection each (the coordinator 40 -> 38):
- spots:read (service spotter): free.pt's overviews after the last article
seen, each spot's full header verified (lib/spotnet from voyager 1, as
Spotweb), its description, website and NZB articles; the password its
title or text names; delete/dispose messages applied.
- spots:inspect (service spot-inspector): each spot's compressed NZB read,
its files listed (spot_files), each matched to the header pass's release
by the same release identity in one of its groups within 48 h
(release_spots); unmatched spots matched again hourly, after 24 h a
release of their own (source spot) with the spot's NZB.
- release_passwords: per release and password, its source (nzb, spot-title,
spot-text) and spot; the catalog keeps only passworded.
XoverClient.head(); PROBE_CONNECTIONS default 10.
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"01of37 ## Alexi uses strange toys … ## alexis001.jpg (1/1) 57295b": with
the whole text as the name, the remainder is the file's size "57295b", which
229189f took for a post token: 16 sets of 36-37 images became 268 releases.
"MDG005b" has letters in a row; "57295b" doesn't.
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- "Ballers.2014.S01E01.HDTV.x264-KILLERS[ettv] 15_07_2015.rar", "Computer Bild
- Ausgabe 152015 - 15_07_2015.rar": the cut after "] " or " - " left
"15_07_2015.rar" for every item of a Razor1911 dump (1,335 files for 12);
a date alone after the cut means the whole text is the name.
- "MDG005b - (01/90) "IMG_2307.JPG"": a counter in parentheses makes no post
key, so every "IMG" set of the poster was one (609 for 90); an image under
a post token is keyed by it too.
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7ad4b70 also keyed rar uploads by artist and total: "VA - Best Of Shamania
Pro 2K16-(SHB 006)-WEB-2016-ZzZz" became 140 files for 20, Ace_Of_Base 72
for 12. Those group by their full name; only a name without capitals or
spaces (Meow's "blaise_mc-in_hellstill_3-ep-web-2022-known.par2") joins
the tracks.
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"[07/14] - "blaise_mc-in_hellstill_3-ep-web-2022-known.par2"": the tracks and the
00- files are keyed by artist and total, the par2 by its stem, so ~1,900 Meow
and Cat posts were two releases. Under a counter a stem that reads as a scene
music release (artist-…-web|cd|ep|single|vinyl|…-…YYYY(-group)) takes the
artist key. And "goh1Phoz5ahXu.par.vol006+08.par2", "X.part.par2" beside
the volumes: .par/.part before a par2 suffix goes too.
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0c5ede9 cut "Angry.Birds.Rio.v1.2.2.cracked.READ.NFO-THETA.rar" at .NFO: the
release lost its group, and two groups' releases of one game would merge.
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"lois 1258 Billy Joel - Extremes.part01.rar lois 1258 Billy Joel - Extremes ",
"GrooveCoverage.part26.rarGrooveCoveragebestof", "Goga Sekulic.part134.rar -
Goga Sekulic - …": the stem kept the title, and each part was a release of its
own (lois, CPP, DieViper, Maveri, tigra: ~2,400 files). runOn cuts the name
after its archive extension when a space, a dash or the name's own start
follows. And three-digit .x/.z volumes ("Reply 987986177631730.x004"),
not .x264/.x265.
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"<kere.ws/illuminatenboard.org> - ID - 1855891249 - Along.The.Ridge.2006.Limited.PAL.DVDr-TWCiSO.rar":
no counter, the board's ID kept isPosterTag from taking the text for a tag,
and a dump of thousands of releases was one of 9,444 files. FTD's ids come
with a counter.
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87e15d8's .[s-v]NN let "Licence 700790900887990.z18" and "….x31" uploads
fall apart again (+1,740 releases on the corpus). .zNN is a split zip volume;
.xNN is a volume unless it's a build.
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d4e53ca's .[s-z]NN took "Electric.Rain.Swift.3D.PS.v1.0.142.x64" for a
volume, so x86 and x64 builds would be one release.
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Each file of these uploads was a release of its own:
- "BD_NoTHing018.s41", "…CyjI.s00": rar volumes after .r99 (as the file's
own lower-case extension only, so "show.s01.rar" keeps its season);
- "chappelle1.part02.rev": rar recovery volumes;
- "X.part1.par2", "X.part1.vol00+34.par2" beside "X.part1.rar";
- "NZPEC….180.bc": BCArchive volumes;
- "[27/70] - 2407.jpg - 28": the size in kB after an unquoted name.
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hep, hephaestus and gyges post each file under a subject name of its own
(31,000 one-file releases), but the yEnc name in each file's first article
keeps the upload's random stem ("bX147zx8I0oEgj7nzFCiorCT0ps2jEcb.7z.001"),
one stem per counter total. The merger's second pass joins releases whose
lone inspections share a random stem: one group and poster, the same total,
within 48 h, no more files than the total plus 10. An expression index over
the stem; release_merges records the kind (via) and takes a stem.
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Every kantodoNNN.bin test upload carries the same par2 set: 64 releases held
it nearby and became one release of 631 files for a set of 10. A set held by
more than 4 releases nearby isn't merged, nor members with more than 3x the
set's files plus 10.
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A par2 index and its repost both hold a set: moving both rows to the target
broke par2_sets' primary key, and the round failed on it every minute from
20:28 UTC (no merges at all). Duplicates among the others go first; a set that
fails is logged and the round goes on.
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"[01/13] - "00-ammar-turk_uit_de_kroeg-single-web-nl-2022-cover.jpg"" with
"[05/13] - "01-ammar-turk_uit_de_kroeg.mp3"": the tracks are keyed by
artist and total (SCENE_TRACK), but the cover, nfo, sfv and m3u were releases
of their own (2,630 single files of Meow in a.b.ftn). Under a bare counter a
00- stem takes the same key.
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The spool only fetches what workers lease soon, in priority order, and the
tail never ends: after a reset the 1,400 capture ranges waited behind it
while 34 of 40 connections idled. Up to CORPUS_AHEAD (8) planned capture
ranges whose chunks aren't all stored are now targets after everything else,
fetched into the corpus only (no spool); a later lease reads them from disk.
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"[ MacGyver.S01E03.DVDRip.XviD-MEDiEVAL ]-[04/38] - "sample.macgy.s01e03-med.avi""
shares one word with the sample's stem: 6225008 took the name for a tag and
split the episode 17 + 21. A counted subject names its upload.
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"German Board - [Usenet4ever.info] und [SecretUsenet.com] - "21.Jump.Street.2012.BDRip.AC3.German.XviD-POE.part01.rar"":
"German" in the stem made the tag a name, and the poster's readable uploads
were releases of 1,422 and 1,535 files.
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"German Board - [Usenet4ever.info] und [SecretUsenet.com] - "<md5>-u4e.part6.rar"":
no counter, so the subject route lumped 11 uploads into one release of 14,450
files. HASHED also takes one 24+ hex run, so the stem keys each upload.
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"(www.Thunder-News.org) >XXX< <Sponsored by Secretusenet> - "ps-itb10b.r00""
has no counter to bound it, so a poster's uploads were one subject release
(1,135 files). Without a counter the remainder drops www hosts and
"Sponsored by X"; what's left names the release or the stem does.
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The settler marks a settled release's candidates ready (and unreadable when
it had no readable name). Claims took the candidates by joining releases
from random points of the queue; in its newer half nothing had settled, so
a slice scanned to the end (0.3 s each, 20 slices and 5 tiers a claim) and
the prober stood still: 2.4M waiting, 0 probed a minute. Now an index over
the claimable rows only, the slices drawn within them.
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From the corpus sweep (695 ranges):
- A bracketed hex id per file ("[PRiVATE] Rosewood.S02E08… [1f1793f68d5321]
[newzNZB] [01/22]") goes from the subject: nEwZ[NZB]'s 32,101 single files.
- A stem that starts with a date is specific enough for the poster-tag rule
("09-30-2008_CTC.r00" under "#sterntuary - Coast To Coast Radio Show":
still one release of 25,188 files, the stem being too short to "describe").
- Episodes under a bare counter ("[01/36] "Pokemon - S02E01 - Pallet Party
Panic.mkv"") are one release per show, season and counter total.
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"00-laura_van_dam_-_capture_radio_113-cable-10-10-2026-talion.m3u" and
.sfv beside "Laura_van_Dam_-_Capture_Radio_113-CABLE-10-10-2026-TALiON.par2"
were two releases of one upload (160731958, 160731584).
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- "rld-gtre.r13.002": a split volume after a rar volume is stripped like
one after .rar (usenet-town's posts were 1,620 single files).
- "[26/32] - [4929] "…part24.rar"": the bracketed size after the counter
goes (Kingdn's episodes, 2,850 single files).
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- XoverClient.bodies: PROBE_PIPELINE (8) BODY commands per connection at
once, replies read in order (one at a time it ran 3-10 articles/s on 6
connections against a queue of 1M).
- Claims in tiers: lone files first, then par2 sets and archives of
releases without a readable name (what the par2 merge needs), then those
of readable releases.
- probe_cache: final answers by message-id (status, inspection with the
16 KiB hash and par2 file list), PROBE_VERSION 2. A reset empties the
probe queue, not the cache; recreated candidates of probed articles are
answered from it without the news server.
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131 uploads of 1 GiB test files ("kantodoNNN.bin", a.b.test) share their
first 16 KiB and size, so all matched one set's single file and became one
release of 1,284 files. A par2 file that matches more than one release in
the anchor's group and time window is left out; a plain repost of the same
file stays apart too.
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- "Very Best Of The Who [01/010]", "[02/020]", "[07/070]": a posting tool's
total of index×10, so every track had a total of its own and was a
release of its own. A total zero-padded wider than its index is no
counter ("[001/010]" still is).
- corpus_sweep.py report compares builds over the ranges both replayed (the
corpus grows between builds).
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From the first corpus sweep (183 ranges):
- A stray quote took the last quote pair ('"x.mp3" "Album_BY_WaRLoRD',
'"x.nfo" " yEnc', '"x.nzb" yEnc"'): the last quoted part with an
extension is the name. Each file was a release of its own.
- A single-quoted name at the end ("… [001/106] 'You, Me And Dupree.nfo'"),
not the host before it (www.x2l.nl).
- Text ending in a host ("… www.libranews.nl") is no file name; a name in
brackets comes first ("[01/77][LIBRATEAM_M2219009.par2]",
"-^-[Mnozil Brass - Seven.nzb]-^-").
- A leading date is no item number ("09-30-2008_BAK_JRS.r00": a daily
show's 32,621 files were one release under the poster's tag).
- The file name repeated elsewhere in the subject goes too
("(NELET11.par2) [01/58] - "NELET11.par2"").
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A release whose last post is 6 hours old gets nothing from the tail, only
fragments from neighbouring ranges: settled once unchanged for 30 minutes.
Waiting 6 hours after it was read held every history release back from
phase 2 after each reset; with the hourly sweeps' resets the prober (and so
the par2 merge) never had work.
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The prober stores, per probed article that starts a file, the MD5 of its
first 16 KiB (file_hashes), and per par2 body the set's whole file list
(par2_files, par2_sets): FileDesc holds the same hash per file, whatever
the file was renamed to. releases:merge (the merger service, no NNTP)
merges every minute the releases of one group, posted within 48 hours of
a release holding the set's par2, whose files the set describes, into the
one with the most files: chunks, probe candidates, inspections, hashes and
counts move; the par2's shared name when none was readable; release_merges
keeps what went where. Obfuscated uploads whose files were each a release
of their own ("[9/20] - "14f5999a…"", hep: 13,232) become one.
Also: corpus_sweep.py counts the marked ranges without psql's command tag.
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From the top-100 groups:
- A hashed stem under text without a counter is the upload ("Seit 1753
Tagen - usenet4ever.info - "055631a1_b6c820bc_…-u4e.part01.rar""): the
day's uploads were one release of 3,747 files.
- A numbered volume as the extension, within the [i/M] total ("(????)
[0659/2195] - "DN.VPL PCK.1508"", "TKY.ASN PCK.691."): keyed without it.
- Scene tracks under a bare counter ("[06/14] - "02-repiet_-_dont_think_
twice_(extended_mix).mp3""): the artist's album bounded by the total.
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