Kai Blin

Nope, still happens, even at just 1 request per second, it just takes longer to get there. As this already happens at the stage of downloading the checksum files, you...

Having said that, I hear from a couple of colleagues that also other connections to the NCBI FTP servers die with the same issues, regardless of if the HTTPS protocol...

This is on the NCBI side of things, though. Not much we can do about this on the client side.

`ncbi-genome-download` doesn't re-download files that are correctly downloaded and current. But in order to check that, it does need to fetch all checksum files again on startup, and if you're...

Again, this is an issue on the NCBI side, nothing `ncbi-genome-download` can do about it.

Hi, at what point is the memory usage up that high? I don't currently have the disk space or internet connection to really try downloading all of bacterial GenBank, but...

ncbi-genome-download was built to allow intelligent filtering of files, not to just go grab all of them, and only the large file downloads were run in parallel, which is why...

I mean I agree that the tool could be more careful with dumping things from memory again, but it was build for workflows like "get me all assemblies of genus...

Hi Greg, This sounds like a useful addition. I'll be happy to add it once I have half an hour to look into this.

That's not available at download time, and pretty tricky to hack in afterwards, because looking at the FASTA header of course only works for the FASTA files, and the code...