Re: Slow file download

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:55 -0800, Brian Dunning wrote: > I'm using a PHP cron job to constantly download files from a remote > server. Client and server both have abundant unused bandwidth, and the > sysads have already eliminated switches, interface cards, etc. as the > source of the slowdown. I'm looking at the script to see why file > downloads are taking so long and going so much slower than if I were > to simply manually download them with a browser on the same machine. > The script says: > > $ctx = stream_context_create(array('http' => array('timeout' => > 1200))); // 20 minutes per file > $contents = file_get_contents($full_url, 0, $ctx); > $fp = fopen('D:\\DocShare\\'.$filename, "w"); > $bytes_written = fwrite($fp, $contents); > fclose($fp); > > Yes, it's on Windows. Any idea whether my PHP code might be > introducing a slowdown? The files range from 500K to 50MB. I often > launch multiple instances of the script but it doesn't seem to help > much. > Instead of using PHP for this, why not have a look at WGET for Windows. This is pretty much the standard way on *nix machines to grab files over the Internet using the command line, and if the Windows version is half as versatile as the Linux version, you'll find it has a lot of useful features too, like support for dropped connections, etc. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk