On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:15:19PM -0400, Peter Matulis wrote: > No, the CPU is not being used. Here is another example (more extreme than > usual): > > lftp ftp.openbsd.org:/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/packages/i386> debug -t > lftp ftp.openbsd.org:/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/packages/i386> mget lsof* > 2005-09-21 14:07:45 ---> PASV > 2005-09-21 14:07:45 <--- 227 Entering Passive Mode (129,128,5,191,164,252) > 2005-09-21 14:07:45 ---- Connecting data socket to (129.128.5.191) port 42236 > 2005-09-21 14:07:48 ---- Data connection established > 2005-09-21 14:07:48 ---> LIST > 2005-09-21 14:07:49 <--- 150 Have a Gorilla. > 2005-09-21 14:12:08 <--- 226 There, everyone likes a Gorilla. > 2005-09-21 14:12:08 ---- Got EOF on data connection
I think the "Gorilla" is very big (i.e. a long listing). Lftp gets whole directory contents to expand wildcards, and in this case either the server is very loaded or the listing is really large, or both. -- Alexander.
