ports-mngmt/portmaster fetch process

[jhell]

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Doug,

Curious if I can get your comments about a possible change in portmaster 
to change the behavior of its fetch method.

While currently its fetch method is optimal for a environment that has a 
speedy ultra-fast connection, it runs havoc on a dial line "56k with 
speed-boost ;)"

Would it be possible to: ?
1) Add a switch that changes its behavior to single fetches - or -
2) Change the default of multiple fetches to single.

I opt for (2). as I really see no need have more then one fetch present at 
a time since it will wait for all others to finish anyway.

The problem I am noticing is that fetches that are over the amount of 
three consecutive connections just revolve until others have finished 
causing DNS lookups on a line that is already at full speed and resulting 
in slower transactions of the first three connections.

If there is something that I have looked over in the script then please 
excuse me but I have not noticed a predetermined way to change this as it 
stands right now.

Thanks

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  Sat Jan  9 21:47:25 2010

  jhell

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