feralape said:Why not have a script that touches and deletes a file every 7.5 seconds?
They'll still time out at least once every two minutes even while downloading multi-gigabyte files. I think the on-board drive cache in conjunction with the kernel's filesystem cache allows it.
In other words, I'm pretty sure a simple [cmd=""]touch foo; rm foo[/cmd] won't ever make it to the platter.