Re: [Robots] Is this mailing linst alive?

2003-11-04 Thread Nick Arnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've created a robot, www.dead-links.com and i wonder if this list is alive. It is alive, but very, very quiet. Nick ___ Robots mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/robots

Re: [Robots] Is this mailing linst alive?

2003-11-04 Thread Tim Bray
On Nov 3, 2003, at 11:16 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've created a robot, www.dead-links.com and i wonder if this list is alive. It is alive, but very, very quiet. Yeah, this robots thing is just a fad, it'll never catch on. -Tim

Re: [Robots] Hit Rate - testing is this mailing linst alive?

2003-11-04 Thread Jaakko Hyvätti
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Alan Perkins wrote: Here's a question to test whether the list is alive and active... I have a feeling the bandwidth and other resources of web sites have gone up so much that really robots do not pose a DoS threat any more. Hit me as hard as you like as long as I am in

[Robots] Hit Rate - testing is this mailing linst alive?

2003-11-04 Thread richard
Alan Perkins writes: What's the current accepted practice for hit rate? In general, leave an interval several times longer than the time taken for the last response. e.g. if a site responds in 20 ms, you can hit it again the same second. If a site takes 4 seconds to response, leave it at least

Re: [Robots] Hit Rate - testing is this mailing linst alive?

2003-11-04 Thread Christian Storm
I thought I would post some of my experience with download rates We have built a large scale crawler that has crawled over 2.4 billion urls and continues to crawl at upwards of 500 pages/second. In tuning the download policy we found that both the hit rate and number of pages downloaded per

RE: [Robots] Hit Rate - testing is this mailing linst alive?

2003-11-04 Thread thomas.kay
Hello Robots list Well maybe this list can finally put to rest a great deal of the 30 second wait issue. Can we all collectively research into an adaptive routine? We all need a common code routine that all our spidering modules and connective programs can use. Especially when we wish to

RE: [Robots] Hit Rate - testing is this mailing linst alive?

2003-11-04 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Robots list Well maybe this list can finally put to rest a great deal of the 30 second wait issue. Can we all collectively research into an adaptive routine? Interesting topic... With one hat on, I operate one of those little servers

Re: [Robots] Hit Rate - testing is this mailing linst alive?

2003-11-04 Thread Walter Underwood
--On Tuesday, November 4, 2003 10:05 AM + Alan Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the current accepted practice for hit rate? Ultraseek uses one request at a time for a server with no extra pause in between. Each file is parsed before sending the next response, so there is a bit of