Delay time between chapters

[RedSquirrel87]

Original report by Ryszard Adamus (Bitbucket: [Ryszard Adamus](https://bitbucket.org/Ryszard Adamus), ).

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Is the option named “Delay between starting the chapters download in second” for additional delay between chapters? If not, can You think about adding the settable delay time as a pause between completing one chapter and starting next one?

[RedSquirrel87]

Original comment by Red Squirrel (Bitbucket: Red_Squirrel, GitHub: RedSquirrel87).

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Yes, that value will be added to the scheduled time for the next chapter to start downloading

[RedSquirrel87]

Original comment by Red Squirrel (Bitbucket: Red_Squirrel, GitHub: RedSquirrel87).

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For example: let’s say you set “Max number of concurrent downloads” value to 3 and download three chapters, if the delay is set to 0 then all the three chapters will start at the same time, but if the delay is set to 2 then only the first chapter will start to download while the second chapter will start after 2 seconds and the third chapter after 4 seconds (2 seconds later than the second chapter)

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[RedSquirrel87]

Original comment by Ryszard Adamus (Bitbucket: [Ryszard Adamus](https://bitbucket.org/Ryszard Adamus), ).

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So it won’t work when concurrent is set to 1? I mean in that case when first chapter is completed then second will download immadietly because app is counting the time from chapter start, not completed?

[RedSquirrel87]

Original comment by Red Squirrel (Bitbucket: Red_Squirrel, GitHub: RedSquirrel87).

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It should work with any concurrent value, the above was just an example. The program will add the delay to the “scheduled time when the chapter should start based on the previous one”. So if you set concurrent to 1, since the scheduled time for the second chapter to start is the end of the first chapter download this mean that the second chapter will start at the end of the download of the first chapter plus the delay value you set

[RedSquirrel87]

Original comment by Ryszard Adamus (Bitbucket: [Ryszard Adamus](https://bitbucket.org/Ryszard Adamus), ).

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Well, i set this value to 15 seconds but next chapter starts immediately after the one which was completed. Observed this trending for few next chapters. Can You check it? Maybe something is broken in current version.

[RedSquirrel87]

Original comment by Red Squirrel (Bitbucket: Red_Squirrel, GitHub: RedSquirrel87).

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Yeah, you’re right, I just checked and it seems to be broken, or better to say, the JAVA native function seems to be bugged. The documentation for the function explicitly speeks about “delay between the termination of one execution and the commencement of the next”:

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But it does not work that way, the delay seems to be counted from the moment you add the job to the executor engine and not from the termination of the last one.

Well, I’ll insert a workaround personal function in the next version for now, hoping this will be fixed soon by Oracle in the JAVA language