Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:02:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: jlemon@americantv.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: various 'fetch' errors Message-ID: <199607182102.QAA08043@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199607182004.OAA02779@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jul 18, 96 02:04:24 pm
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> : Maybe I'm being naive, but wouldn't "at 1am + 2 days fetch ftp://...." do > : what you want? > > Yes. You are being naive. :-) Let's say I wanted to fetch 10-20 > things. And I have microbandwidth to the rest of the world. I want > them to happen sequentially rather than in parallel. Let's also say I In reality, one might want the ability to specify a "max concurrent xfers" limit. Old SunOS cron did this (I think Solaris does too), one could specify how many jobs of a given grade would be run simultaneously. (see man 5 queuedefs). Probably long forgotten except by us old Sun3 performance tuning freaks. a.4j1n b.2j2n90w n.1j10n60w Ah, the old days. Anyways, that sort of functionality would allow those of us with high speed connectivity to live happy, while still allowing for the slow 14.4K link folks who are interested in scheduling transfers while they are not using their machines. ... JG
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