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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Performance Metrics using wget Post 302514002 by Corona688 on Thursday 14th of April 2011 01:17:58 PM

04-14-2011

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rob171171

so when I run

Code:

 /usr/bin/wget www.youtube.com/watch?v-qxd2vXrZ5pk

it should take same time to stream, i.e 1m 32 secs however the reposne i get back in my log file takes about 2-3 secs

That gets the webpage. The streaming content isn't part of the document, the same way files linked by

Code:

<img src="http://path/to/whatever.jpg">

tags aren't -- it's somewhere else.

Unfortunately the element between the webpage and the streaming content isn't a simple src="path/to/video.flv" but handled obscurely through Adobe Flash Player via means I don't entirely understand. Not always the same means either, it seems to change sometimes(probably to break youtube downloader programs)... Most youtube downloaders get the URL from the web browser itself, since the browser has to be told it one way or another to download it...

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pmdapostfix

PMDAPOSTFIX(1)						       Performance Co-Pilot						    PMDAPOSTFIX(1)

NAME

       pmdapostfix - Postfix performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)

DESCRIPTION

       pmdapostfix is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports mail queue sizes as reported by qshape(1), as well as aggregate
       statistics collected from mail.log.

INSTALLATION

       If you want access to the names and values for the Postfix performance metrics, do the following as root:

	   # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/postfix
	   # ./Install

       If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:

	   # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/postfix
	   # ./Remove

       pmdapostfix is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly.  The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent is
       installed or removed.

FILES

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/postfix/Install
	   installation script for the pmdapostfix agent

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/postfix/Remove
	   undo installation script for the pmdapostfix agent

       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/postfix.log
	   default log file for error messages from pmdapostfix

SEE ALSO

       pmcd(1) and qshape(1).

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