Posted by Ben C on 11/08/06 20:58

On 2006-11-08, Beauregard T. Shagnasty <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote:
> duzhidian@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> I think your task is doomed to failure.
>>
>> Why say that? It is a online database which saves millions of data.
>> I only need thousands of them.
>
> A thousand(s) requests in a couple of seconds could crash the server, or
> at the very least, block out all other users for some period of time.
> Don't be rude.

That's a good point, it's usually a good idea to make the script sleep
for a few seconds between each request when doing this kind of thing.

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