[CS-FSLUG] Wget getting sloooowwww

[Don Parris]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:15:22 -0500, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:17:31 -0500, Brian Derr <bderr at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 18:46 -0500, Don Parris wrote:
> > > A friend of mine is running a dual-boot WinXP & SUSE 9.2 system.  He
> > > is able to get to User Friendly (for example) in about 2 seconds using
> > > Firefox under X.  Same for WinXP.  Wget takes 30+ seconds, and
> > > frequently times out.  Ping takes at least 10 secs to start pinging,
> > > but dig takes a second or so.  WinXP's ping is blazing, as well.  Any
> > > ideas on what gives with the slowness of wget/ping under SUSE?
> >
> > A router that doesn't like ICMP?  Why are you trying to wget User
> > Friendly, for local browsing?
> >
> > --
> > Brian
> >

The issue is not UF specific - it's just an example.  He only uses
wget to run against a checksum to be sure the image has actually
changed.  If it has, he gets an e-mail so he can go view the image on
the site (as opposed to archiving it).  However, wget seems slow for
other uses as well.

Don
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