diff --git a/bin/monitor.php b/bin/monitor.php
index 57b1a9ba1..862c18541 100755
--- a/bin/monitor.php
+++ b/bin/monitor.php
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ $_testing_path = getenv('TESTING_PATH');
 $_mysql = getenv('MYSQL');
 $_php = getenv('PHP');
 $_nntp = getenv('NNTP_SLEEP');
+$_rel_sleep = getenv('RELEASES_SLEEP');
 $_threads = getenv('THREADS');
 $_innodb = getenv('INNODB');
 
@@ -138,7 +139,10 @@ while($i>0)
   passthru('clear');
   printf("\033[1;34mMonitor\033[0m has been running for: $time_string\n");
   printf("$releases_since_loop releases added in the previous $sleeptime seconds.\n");
-  printf("$releases_now($signed$releases_since_start) releases in your database.\n\n");
+  printf("$releases_now($signed$releases_since_start) releases in your database.\n");
+  printf("$total_work_now releases left to postprocess.");
+  if ( $_max_releases != 0 ) { printf(" update_binaries, backfill and nzb-import will stop running when you exceed $_max_releases\n\n"); }
+  else { printf("\n\n"); }
 
   $mask = "%16s %10s %10s \n";
   printf($mask, "Category", "In Process", "In Database");
@@ -150,6 +154,7 @@ while($i>0)
   printf($mask, "PC(4000)","$pc_releases_proc","$pc_releases_now");
   printf($mask, "TVShows(5000)","$tvrage_releases_proc","$tvrage_releases_now");
   printf($mask, "Additional Proc","$work_remaining_now","$additional_releases_now");
+  printf($mask, "Total Releases","$total_work_now","$releases_now");
 
   if ((TIME() - $time2) >= 900 ) {
     shell_exec("tmux respawnp -t Newznab-dev:1.0 'cd $_newznab_path && $_php update_predb.php true && date && echo \"$_string\"' 2>&1 1> /dev/null");
@@ -242,19 +247,19 @@ if ( ! $_inno_test ) {
   }
 }
 
-  if (( $total_work_now < $_max_releases )  && ( $_binaries == "true" )) {
+  if (( $total_work_now < $_max_releases ) || ( $_max_releases == 0 ) && ( $_binaries == "true" )) {
     shell_exec("tmux respawnp -t Newznab-dev:0.11 'cd $_update_path && $_php $_update_cmd && date && echo \"sleeping $_nntp seconds...\" && sleep $_nntp && echo \"$_string\"' 2>&1 1> /dev/null");
   }
-  if (( $total_work_now < $_max_releases ) && ( $_backfill == "true" )) {
+  if (( $total_work_now < $_max_releases ) || ( $_max_releases == 0 ) && ( $_backfill == "true" )) {
     //shell_exec("tmux respawnp -t Newznab-dev:0.12 '$_mysql -u$_DB_USER -h $_DB_HOST --password=$_DB_PASSWORD $_DB_NAME -e \"${backfill_increment}\"' 2>&1 1> /dev/null");
     shell_exec("tmux respawnp -t Newznab-dev:0.12 'cd $_update_path && $_php $_backfill_cmd && \
                                                    $_mysql -u$_DB_USER -h $_DB_HOST --password=$_DB_PASSWORD $_DB_NAME -e \"${backfill_increment}\" && \
                                                    date && echo \"sleeping $_nntp seconds...\" && sleep $_nntp && echo \"$_string\"' 2>&1 1> /dev/null");
   }
-  if (( $total_work_now < $_max_releases )  && ( $_import == "true" )) {
+  if (( $total_work_now < $_max_releases ) || ( $_max_releases == 0 ) && ( $_import == "true" )) {
     shell_exec("tmux respawnp -t Newznab-dev:0.13 'cd $_import_path && $_php $_import_cmd \"$_nzbs\" true && date && echo \"$_string\"' 2>&1 1> /dev/null");
   }
-  shell_exec("tmux respawnp -t Newznab-dev:0.14 'cd $_newznab_path && $_php update_releases.php && date && echo \"$_string\"' 2>&1 1> /dev/null");
+  shell_exec("tmux respawnp -t Newznab-dev:0.14 'cd $_newznab_path && $_php update_releases.php && date && echo \"sleeping $_rel_sleep seconds...\" && sleep $_rel_sleep && echo \"$_string\"' 2>&1 1> /dev/null");
 
   $i++;
 }
diff --git a/edit_these.sh b/edit_these.sh
index 7c97a6b01..2d8da26c0 100755
--- a/edit_these.sh
+++ b/edit_these.sh
@@ -10,31 +10,39 @@ export TESTING_PATH=$NEWZPATH"/misc/testing"
 export ADMIN_PATH=$NEWZPATH"/www/admin"
 export INNODB_PATH=$DIR"/bin/innodb"
 
-#Select the user name that will run these scripts
-export USERNAME="what is your username"
-
 #Enter the session name to be used by tmux
 export TMUX_SESSION="Newznab-dev"
 
-#Set, in seconds - how often the monitor.php script should up, 0 may cause errors
+#Set, in seconds - how often the monitor.php (left top pane) script should update, 0 may cause errors
 export MONITOR_UPDATE="20"
 
 #Set, in seconds - how long the update_binaries and backfill should sleep between runs, 0 may cause errors
-export NNTP_SLEEP="10"
+export NNTP_SLEEP="20"
 
-#Set the maximum days tp backfill
+#Set, in seconds - how long the update_release should sleep between runs, 0 may cause errors
+export RELEASES_SLEEP="20"
+
+#Set the maximum days to backfill, you set the nn+ admin/edit backfill to 1
+#this will increment your database by 1 after each backfill loop
+#once your backfill numbers reach $MAXDAYS, then it will no long increment the database
+#backfill will continue to run, and do no work, at that point you should disable backfill, below
 export MAXDAYS="210"
 
-#Set the path to the nzb dump you downloaded from torrents
+#Set the path to the nzb dump you downloaded from torrents, theis is the path to bulk files folder of nzbs
+#this does not recurse through subfolders
 export NZBS="/path/to/nzbs"
 
 #Choose to run the threaded or non-threaded newznab scripts true/false
+#such as update_binaries.php or update_binaries_threaded.php
 export THREADS="true"
 
-#Choose your database, comment the one true/false
+#Choose your database engine, comment the one true/false
+#you should have already converted your database to InnoDB engine, if you select true here
 export INNODB="true"
 
 #Choose to run update_cleanup.php true/false
+#set to false by default, you will need to edit /misc/testing/update_cleanup.php to actually do anything
+#directions are in the file
 export CLEANUP="false"
 
 #Choose to run update_binaries true/false
@@ -47,16 +55,18 @@ export BACKFILL="true"
 export IMPORT="true"
 
 #Choose to run optimise_db script true/false
-export OMPTIMISE="false"
+export OMPTIMISE="true"
 
-#Set the max amount of unprocessed releases and still allow import or backfill to run
-export MAX_RELEASES="100000"
+#Set the max amount of unprocessed releases and still allow nzb-import, backfill and update_releases to run
+#set to 0 to disable
+export MAX_RELEASES="0"
 
 #Specify your SED binary
 export SED="/bin/sed"
 #export SED="/usr/local/bin/gsed"
 
 #Select some monitoring script, if they are not installed, it will not affect the running of the scripts
+#these are set to false by default, enable if you want them
 export USE_HTOP="false"
 export USE_NMON="false"
 export USE_BWMNG="false"
diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
index c1674cdf9..087024cb4 100755
--- a/start.sh
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ cp conf/tmux.conf conf/tmux_user.conf
 $SED -i 's,'changeme,"$NZBS"',' "conf/tmux_user.conf"
 
 printf "\033]0; $TMUX_SESSION\007\003\n"
-$TMUX -f conf/tmux_user.conf new-session -d -s $TMUX_SESSION -n NewzNab-dev 'cd bin && echo "monitor Working......" && nice -n 19 $PHP monitor.php -i'
+$TMUX -f conf/tmux_user.conf new-session -d -s $TMUX_SESSION -n $TMUX_SESSION 'cd bin && echo "monitor Working......" && nice -n 19 $PHP monitor.php -i'
 $TMUX selectp -t 0
 $TMUX splitw -h -p 72 'echo "..."'
 $TMUX splitw -h -p 50 'echo "..."'