in reply to Re^3: Mass downloads. (N+5)
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Part of what I was hoping to do do was test what throughput I could get via my limited bandwidth using mutiple threads and overlapped IO.
My intention was to download high proportion of PM and then produce a fully inverted index to it locally.
With the concern that there was never a time here when I could run the process without having an undue impact, I got permission to do my throughput testing at the weekend at another site where their peak usage is weekdays.
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