[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs: Temporary scale-back to 3 days of listings

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:37:54PM -0600, Zap2It-Labs wrote:
> > Will paying attention to the suggested download times (as the 
> > upcoming 0.19 
> > release of myth does) help, at least when most of the users 
> > here upgrade?
> 
> Isaac,
> 
> Absolutely.  We are still getting hammered in the middle of the night.  I
> haven't posted a concurrency graph for a long time, but the worst time for
> us is between midnight and 3:00 a.m.
> 
> Zap2it Labs download are far from evenly spread.  Since Myth is very
> popular, and Myth users are very "heavy" (always get 13 days), the
> acknowledge implementation should help quite a bit.

Tom: we've moved our download to 5 pm, in an attempt to avoid the
networks screwing us on last minute primetime updates.

a) Is that actually a worthwhile strategy, and 

b) have you considered any sort of "just the changes, just for today"
sub-feed that might address that particular issue, without the
even-worse load problems that would probably occur if *everyone*
switched from 3am to 5pm?

Cheers,
-- jra
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	A: No.
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