Yandex technical support answers by mail, that there is 30" limit to start transfer of YML and 180" to complete transfer. So, for my 4000+ items in catalog I had to use the following technology: preview .YML in brouser (~5')-> View Source -> save to file, remove first empty string

 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<!DOCTYPE yml_catalog SYSTEM "shops.dtd"> 
<yml_catalog date="2011-03-17 12:25"> 
<shop>

then upload to site under a different name and give Yandex link to this file.
Yandex check result is "OK".

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restyler commented

First empty string has nothing to do with the YML export module. It's an issue in some other place.

Regarding timeout - yes, for huge catalog that can be a problem.. I guess the easiest solution here is to use some compression for the generated yml..

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com_net commented

You are right - first empty string was the result of an error in one of the ubercart's contribution modules.
But long yml generation time (not long transfer - namely generation time) - remains a problem. Current solution is - shell script, executed by cron:

wget http://....../yml_products.xml                                                                                                                 
rm -rf yml1.xml                                                                                                                                              
mv yml_products.xml yml1.xml

(yandex gets static yml1.xml - it takes ~15s, realtime generation (script execution time) - is about 7 minutes)

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restyler commented
Category: bug » feature
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x-drup commented

I optimized this module , hacked :), and now he can upload over 8000 items without problems. (also php memory limit = 256M)