Yes, that thought occured to me not too long after my original post.

I noticed I was not always receieving what I exptected from Get() on any given address. After taking a closer look I saw that I was getting DNS errors, timeouts from the site itself, etc. So, I started logging these and it soon became apparent that at least part (if not most) of the problem in taking too long was related to the Get() operations and/or just accessing the site itself.

I certainly appreciate the tip and advice on using LWP::Parallel::UserAgent. I will look into it. I have so much to learn about Perl; what started as some simple scripting is growing rapidly, as does my sense of confusion from time to time ;-)
I am sure I will run down the wrong rat-hole many more times!

Also, regarding the DOS attack issue: that is certainly something I DO NOT want to do, the script MUST play nice. Currently, I really don't want to hit the servers more than a couple of times a second.

Any tips on how I can monitor how hard I'm hitting a server?

BTW: I am "reasonably" certain that the timeout messages I received from the servers were not from me hitting them too hard. My sanity check was to stop the script, bring up IE and enter the URL. I got the same message "Timeout on your request" or something like that. After waiting a few minutes it worked. So, I am just assuming the server itself was too busy.

Does that seem reasonable?

Thanks

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Memory Use and/or efficiency passing scalars to subs by Anonymous Monk
in thread Memory Use and/or efficiency passing scalars to subs by knexus

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