Re^3: Mass downloads. (N+5)

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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Re^4: Mass downloads. (N+5)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 25, 2005 at 20:39 UTC

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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