Being -gentle with servers

Being -gentle with servers

This option lets you specify how long Big Brother should wait between two requests to the same server. By default, Big Brother is not gentle at all, so it will issue HTTP requests as quickly as it can. This could make the target Web server(s) noticeably less responsive. So, to avoid overload, you should specify how many seconds must elapse between consecutive requests to a single server, by using the -gentle option. A reasonable setting is

Of course, this will cause link checking to take more time.

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François Pottier, January 16, 2005

Being -gentle with servers

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