From: Elliot Temple Date: 2007-08-19T08:15:40+09:00 Subject: Re: Download Calvin+Hobbes Script Elliot Temple wrote: > James Britt wrote: > >> No, first consider the people hosting the content you're snarfing. >> >> They're footing the bill for bandwidth and hosting. >> >>> ... FYI the images total >>> about 112 megs. There's 3691 of them. >>> >> >> And not a single "sleep" in the script. Nice. > > Hi James, > > It's a good thing I posted. I will remember to put a sleep next time. > Thank you. Oh. How much sleep is best? One second per image would add an hour to the script run time. I don't have a sense of how much is needed. 5 seconds? .5 seconds? Is requests per time or volume of data per time more important to limit? - Elliot -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.