| Re: Asynchronous FTP Upload [message #172082 is a reply to message #172061] |
Sun, 30 January 2011 13:41   |
Luuk
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On 28-01-11 20:48, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 1/28/2011 10:56 AM, duderion wrote:
>> On Jan 28, 4:29 pm, Jerry Stuckle<jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>> On 1/28/2011 10:12 AM, duderion wrote:
>>>
>>>> hi guys,
>>>
>>>> could anyone tell me how i can handle an ftp upload to several servers
>>>> at once?
>>>
>>>> I found fb_nb_put, but i dont know how to combine 5 connections with
>>>> this.
>>>
>>>> any help would be nice :)
>>>
>>>> dude
>>>
>>> You'll need to open 5 different streams and start each transfer. Keep
>>> track of the status of each transfer in an array and loop while any of
>>> them need to continue. In the loop, continue those which have not
>>> finished.
>>>
>>> Not sure what this is going to do though for you though, other than take
>>> a lot of unnecessary CPU because you're effectively polling constantly.
>>> Why don't you just upload each file individually?
>>>
>> Hi Jerry
>> thanks for the quick and nice reply,
>>
>> i need to do this, because i have to trasfer videos to around 500
>> hosts during one night. i have a 1gb upload line, and thats why i want
>> to run those uploads simultaniously....
>>
> <Top posting fixed>
>
> That doesn't mean you'll get anywhere near 1gb upload. Your limit in
> this case is likely going to be disk access speed (assuming the other
> hosts are replying in a timely manner, of course). And forcing the disk
> to jump around to fetch data from different areas of the disk is likely
> to be slower then accessing the data in a contiguous file.
>
> The point being - even if you open 5 parallel connections, you are not
> going to get 5x the speed; in fact, depending on what you're doing, you
> may actually slow down the processing. And error recovery becomes much
> harder.
You might be true, but most of it depends on the download speed at the
receiving site. If its lower then 1/5 of your uploadspeed than you
should not worry ;)
>
> You need to test and find out. The "sweet spot" may be anywhere from 1
> to 500 parallel connections (although I highly doubt the latter :) ).
> And it may vary depending on exactly which hosts you're currently
> accessing and how quickly they respond.
>
> P.S. Please don't top post. Thanks.
>
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Luuk
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