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in thread Mass downloads.

I'm not really sure how many posts I would be pulling--it is dependant upon the contents of those I pull--, but it probably be in the order of 10s of 1000s.

At the rate of 1 every 5 or more seconds, 10,000 would take 13 hours, which given the 2 hour cutoff on my dialup account is somewhat impractical. I was hoping to get authority to run at a rather faster rate at times of low system load.

If that is not permissible, I may have to abort the idea.

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Re^3: Mass downloads. (N+5)
by valdez (Monsignor) on May 22, 2005 at 09:59 UTC

    Why don't you ask jcwren to give you an account on perlmonk.org? There you will have all the time you need.

    HTH, Valerio

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Re^3: Mass downloads. (N+5)
by exussum0 (Vicar) on May 25, 2005 at 19:46 UTC
    Can't whatever program you run, download them in batch and keep a marker of what node was last successfully downloaded and saved? Heck, when it can't reach the server, have it sleep for 5 or 10 mintues. When you connect again, it'll just pickup where it left off.

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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.

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      The "good enough" maybe good enough for the now, and perfection maybe unobtainable, but that should not preclude us from striving for perfection, when time, circumstance or desire allow.
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