I start a bunch of recursive Wget processes in the background with -b. I notice
that some of the processes remain for a long time with a sleeping status. They
seem to almost not be doing anything, because I see the total number of files
downloaded and the total size increase very slowly - a whole minute passes by
without an additional byte being written to disk. Tailing the log file, it
seems to be frozen at an incomplete line like this one:
Connecting to 216.55.161.137:80... fai
The processes do complete after a real long time. Is there a way to make this
work better?
Youssef Eldakar
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
