| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 4 May 2001 at 21:25:14 |
| Subject: | Re: Yam speeds |
Hi Everybody,
> On one of my other list I regular recive e-mails of between
> 100k-700k. Now I've noticed with Yam that when I download these
> large mails the transfer speed goes up by about 3 cps per second.
> Afterwards if there are more mails say from this list, which are
> only between 2k-4k the speed drops by about 3 cps per second. Is
> this just down to the nature of the net or is this a Yam quirk. If
> the later is there a way of speeding up Yam apart from switching to
> digest mode in my lists.
It happens because of the way email works:
Download message
Stop downloading message
Write to disk
Download message
Stop downloading message
Write to disk
Download message
Stop downloading message
Write to disk
The Stop download messages and Write to disk parts interupt the
download, thus brinning the overall data speed down too.
If you get a load if very big emails, then most of the time is spent
downloading rather then saving them to disk.
There isn't really any way round that I'm afraid, except a faster
CPU/Hard drive to speed up saving them
See ya :)
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