30 second build, waited 1 minute after initial machine filling until backstuffing started lasting long enough to stick for a few moments. using only te3 and vanilla. the duct from the resonant strongbox to the pulverizers is set to stacksize 1, round robin. pulling smoothstone, sand, gravel, cobble in whatever strongbox slot order it prefers from the resonant strongbox fed there from the creative chests, in whatever order the chest fills. this is not unique. this can and will occur at this level of complexity left right and center.
if i double the number of pulverizers the backstuff begins to exponentiate into taking longer and longer to clear even with stacksize 1.
when he fixes this behaviour he will be addressing the cause and not the symptom.
this also works as a test case with the duct feeding the pulverizers in normal mode instead of round robin and still on stacksize 1. increasing stacksize only amplifies the problem because it seems to prefer that a backstuff from say, pulverizer #2, only be resent to any destination when pulverizer 2 says "i have space" instead holding it for some time even if pulverizer 3 is emptied manually. worse on the backstuff stacks, they do not condense while in the pipe or backstuff buffer. 1000 single cobble, or 1000 stacks of 60, will always remain in said stack size taking a slot in the backstuff queue. remember way back when buildcraft pipes wouldn't condense items of the same type in a pipe into a stack, or item entities littering the world as pickups that didn't condense into stacks? i understand why it doesn't in this case, but this seems to explain why marsupilami couldn't get backstuff 20 to delete. none of the stacks were 20, they were all 1s. minor logic error?
adding a mechanic to autodelete backstuff in a volume processing environment like this pack is kind of a non starter as it promotes lossy systems requiring even more volumetric throughput to compensate. this in turn promotes more built that can backstuff to the new lesser degree and delete items as well. in short the ducts are the new mj power system. it is stone simple to have it backstuff, and thus will be guaranteed to be lossy.
