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By: Doga Armangil
 RE: starting each download takes a long time [ reply ]
2006-07-13 14:50
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Correction to what I have said earlier:
I have indeed observed that cache files are not immediately created by podcatcher. This is because the Ruby network library first downloads content into a temporary file (located in the ~/tmp folder in my case) before writing to the destination file.
This does not influence download speed, though. To check if there is network activity on your machine, I would recommend that you look at your network adapter (does it blink?).
It seems that you were watching podcatcher too closely :).
I hope this helps.
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By: Fran Pena
RE: starting each download takes a long time [ reply ]
2006-07-13 06:26
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Thanks for your always quick responses Doga!
I just tried wget for windows to download one of the mp3s on one of my feeds and it goes fine.
In fact, the inital part of your program (retrieving my opml and then the feeds themselves) goes very quick on the domains resolutions.
I think it has to do maybe something with ruby for windows, don't know. I'll let you know if I figure it out.
Thanks again!
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By: Doga Armangil
RE: starting each download takes a long time [ reply ]
2006-07-12 15:35
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Fran, Hi,
Your particular setup (operating system, proxy etc) seems to be the culprit here. I have not observed this behaviour with my setup.
One possibility is that your machine hangs during the domain name resolution process, in which case this is a Windows configuration issue.
I hope this helps.
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By: Fran Pena
RE: starting each download takes a long time [ reply ]
2006-07-12 12:04
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Hi Doga.
I think I didn't add all the information, sorry for that.
I didn't mean that v1.3.5 was slower, the same thing happened on v1.3.4. I just wanted to establish what my setup was.
I'll elaborate now on the behaviour.
When I say it stops at that point I mean that I am monitoring the cache dir and the feed subdir in order to see if anything is downloading. Well, nothing downloads at all for like 3 or 5 minutes. There is no "movement" on the cache dir for some time before the first one and between each mp3 retreival.
I am constantly refreshing the dir and before even writing the 0 bytes mp3 file it takes a lot of time on every download. Once a file starts downloading I keep monitoring it and the download speed seems to correspond to my internet download speed.
Thanks for the response!
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By: Doga Armangil
RE: starting each download takes a long time [ reply ]
2006-07-12 08:40
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Hi,
Concerning the download speed: podcatcher has not become slower in the latest version (v1.3.5) compared to the previous version.
The behaviour that you mention seems to be due to display latency, rather than download latency. Output to the console is not always "real-time": it is sometimes put into an internal cache, and displayed some time afterwards by the system. So even if the comments that follow the "Fetching:.." comment take some time to appear, podcatcher is performing other tasks (such as download) in the meantime.
This behaviour may confuse users, I agree. The comments in question will not appear in the next version.
Thanks.
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