Oh sh*t.
I started a process running on my HD-FOX to download The First Night of the Proms, over a week ago. It is trying to download 1.67GB (I wish I had chosen a smaller version), at a blistering 300kB/s-ish. When I started it off, I was getting estimates of ETA of a couple of hours (rough fag-packet figures indicate 100 minutes would be about right). After a few hours I had just a few percent. After a day I had about 15% with an ETA of 24 hours. It's now on 86% and the ETA is still 37 hours away. There is a real risk the download won't complete before the iPlayer item expires!
Something, somewhere, is throttling this and I have no idea where. My "normal" internet still works fine.
However, I now realise there is fatal flaw. Re-reading the above, it seems I'm going to hit a storage limit when the
youtube-dl process tries to stitch together the downloaded packets and convert them.
Can I start up a swap file while the download is still live, or do I have to stop it first? This wouldn't be too much of a problem I guess, since youtube-dl is able to pick up where it left off.
While I've been thinking about this post, the download has completed and FFMPEG has started its thing... soon to crash no doubt. I am heartened that METs posts indicate it can be recovered without re-downloading. It's almost like the download wasn't happening while I didn't have the abduco session live - my log file might make interesting reading (although, with no timestamps, it might be difficult to figure out).
And it's crashed. Let's try that swap file...