Connection Error, RemoteDisconnected

Hi,

When I try to download data for a relatively large number of genomes, e.g.: ncbi-genome-download bacteria -t 562 -l complete -F assembly-report

I get the following error message: ERROR: Download from NCBI failed: ConnectionError(ProtocolError(‘Connection aborted.’, RemoteDisconnected(‘Remote end closed connection without response’)))

I don’t get this issue when downloading only one or a few genomes. Looking at similar issues it seems that a Connection Error is usually due to the connection of users themselves, and not an error caused by ncbi-genome-download. However because the connection is closed by the remote end, I’m not sure.

If anyone could help me out that’d be greatly appreciated!

Best, Lisa

[kblin]

Now I got the ERROR: Download from NCBI failed: ConnectionError(ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response',)),) one. Unfortunately there’s really not much to find out about this, because the connection is closed not at the HTTP GET request level but one level below that, so there’s really no communication of what the issue is. I’m currently trying to add a rate limiting step to see if that fixes it, but this will slow down things considerably.

[kblin]

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