I just setup Google Sitemaps on a new site. The site has about 60000 html pages. Watching the logs after I submitted the sitemap, I see that Google is spending time (and bandwidth) sucking down the sitemap*.xml.gz files many times. In about 30 minutes they've downloaded it about 8 times.
Do I have something incorrectly set, or is this normal? They've definitely downloaded a lot more copies of the sitemaps file than they have files listed in the sitemap.
