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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:12:28 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
Cc:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh), jlemon@americantv.com, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: various 'fetch' errors
Message-ID:  <9607182112.AA07077@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199607182102.QAA08043@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
References:  <199607182004.OAA02779@rover.village.org> <199607182102.QAA08043@brasil.moneng.mei.com>

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<<On Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:02:49 -0500 (CDT), Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> said:

> In reality, one might want the ability to specify a "max concurrent xfers"
> limit.  Old SunOS cron did this (I think Solaris does too), one could specify
> how many jobs of a given grade would be run simultaneously.  (see man 5
> queuedefs).

Of course, you can still do this with modern batch systems like NQS.
That's probably overkill for ftp jobs....

-GAWollman

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