Pete, With all due respect - I think the download problem is "self-inflicted", because your web site is providing unsuitable examples to your customers! Even with moderate bandwidth, your server would be able to handle tens of thousands of hits a day. Checking if an updated file exists should barely be noticeable - as long as it doesn't result in an unnecessary download.
You probably suffer TWO problems: A) Most of your customers are downloading rules based on a schedule, even if no rules exists. Potential savings: 100% per download attempt. B) Your customers are not downloading "compressed" rule files. Potential savings: about 66%, but that's not bad either. One likely explanation is that at least THREE of your sample scripts do an unconditional and uncompressed download! Here the 3 URLs you list on your web site and WGET command they are using: http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/UserScripts/david_snifferUpda teMethod.zip wget http://www.sortmonster.net/Sniffer/Updates/xxxxxxxx.snf -O xxxxxxxx.new --http-user=username --http-passwd=password http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/UserScripts/Hank_SnifferScrip ts.zip wget http://www.sortmonster.net/Sniffer/Updates/xxxxxxxx.snf -O xxxxxxxx.new --http-user=sniffer --http-passwd=ki11sp8m http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/UserScripts/Michiel_AutoUpdat e.zip wget http://sniffer:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Sniffer/Updates/12345678.snf -O <serial>.tst My recommendation: Replace these with examples that implement conditional, compressed downloading. Best Regards Andy Schmidt H&M Systems Software, Inc. 600 East Crescent Avenue, Suite 203 Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458-1846 Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax: +1 201 934-9206 http://www.HM-Software.com/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 08:10 AM To: Chuck Schick Subject: Re: [sniffer] Downloads are slow... On Monday, December 27, 2004, 1:17:21 AM, Chuck wrote: CS> Pete: CS> It appears on weekends the sniffer downloads are really slow. I am CS> downloading at 14 minutes past the hour and I am about 1/20 th of CS> the normal speed. That is an unusual observation - I don't think weekends have anything to do with making things slower. I will look at the logs to see if I can figure out what heppened. You're not manually downloading I hope? _M This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
