Are you plucking with Plucker Desktop? If so, change the setting for the spidering window from 'progress dialog' to 'console window'. It is a night and day difference in these cases.
Options -> Preferences -> Spidering ->Show spider progress with: 'A console window' --Wes ----- Original Message ----- From: "florent pitoun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:33 PM Subject: RE: Point one solved > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ben Steeves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: mercredi 27 novembre 2002 18:20 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: Point one solved > > > > > > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:15, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > > > > Is there anything that can be done from a code standpoint to > > > > increase the speed of plucker-build? Plucking my normal channels > > > > takes all day(literally 23:50!) > > > > > > I have yet to see a channel take longer than 4 minutes > > on my machine, > > > and I'm only on a piddly cable modem. Are you talking about > > Windows? > > > Or Linux? Or Plucker Desktop? > > Win2K, T1 connection > > > Of course, any channel can take an infinite (well, > > practically infinite) amount of time if you try to slurp the > > whole Internet or something silly like that... > > > > What are these day-long-to-build channels doing, exactly? > > Just take the showcase channels like slashdot, palminfoncenter and 2 or 3 > others and see by yourself. It will take hours to build. > However, I now have a list that takes a lot less (10 to 15 minutes with 15 > channels) that I have taylored myself using spidering properties. > > In fact, the problem relies in pre-defined channels. > > BTW, sorry for my M$ Outlook clubersome quoting, what I have to use at work > :( > -- > Florent > _______________________________________________ > plucker-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list > _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list

