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bug #27957: wget -i can use up lots of ram if the list is long enough

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Fri 06 Nov 2009 12:37:53 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Feature Request Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  3 - Low Status:  Needs Discussion
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Jacques Mattheij Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  1.12
Operating System:  GNU/Linux Reproducibility:  Every Time
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
Regression:  None Work Required:  None
Patch Included:  None
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Tue 25 May 2010 03:23:31 PM UTC, comment #1: 

if the file is too big, you can consider using split(1) in N files and execute wget N times.

It can be done with a rather simple script.

I don't think it worths to move this logic in the wget program.

Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano>
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Fri 06 Nov 2009 12:37:53 PM UTC, original submission:  

This version of wget seems to load the full url list into memory when invoked with the -i option, which if the list is large enough causes serious problems. We found out about this during our rescue attempt of geocities, the seeds lists were very long.

c01-03:~# wget --version
GNU Wget 1.12 built on linux-gnu.

+digest +ipv6 +nls -ntlm +opie +md5/builtin -https -gnutls -openssl
-iri

Wgetrc:
    /usr/local/etc/wgetrc (system)
Locale: /usr/local/share/locale
Compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSYSTEM_WGETRC="/usr/local/etc/wgetrc"
    -DLOCALEDIR="/usr/local/share/locale" -I. -I../lib -I ../md5 -O2
    -Wall
Link: gcc -O2 -Wall -ldl -lrt ftp-opie.o gen-md5.o ../lib/libgnu.a
    ../md5/libmd5.a

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