Yes, thanks, you seem to be right.  If I use more
threads on the same host although the process seems to
go faster I get alot more http errors so it ends up
being slower (and probably more disruptive to the
site.)

--- EM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Go with 1 thread per host. 
> 
> For my small area of internet where I fetch my
> pages, almost all hosts
> starts refusing requests on 3+ threads, some of
> them, even at 1+. 
> 
> Bandwidth-wise, if you go with higher value on
> fetcher.threads.per.host,
> your fetcher will have hard time connecting and the
> target server will save
> on bandwidth in fact ;)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Creel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 4:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: fetch bandwidth settings
> 
> I have read that you don't want to make more than 1
> or
> 2 requests per second to the same host, or else you
> will start adversely affecting their bandwidth.  Is
> this a good rule of thumb?  
> 
> Along those lines, what would be the best values to
> put in the nutch config file to maximize speed of
> fetching without hammering the site?  I'm thinking
> something like this:
> 
> fetcher.server.delay: 1.0
> fetcher.threads.per.host: 2
> 
> thanks,
> raymond
> 
> 
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