At 12:46 PM -0400 10/23/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Looking at the main digging loop, I am having some trouble figuring out what
>is going on.  Does server->pop() return null if the server fails to respond
>for one document?  It looks like if that happens, more will never be set back
>to 1.  Is that why one retrieval failure ruins the whole rest of the dig?

Just as a FYI here, server->pop() will only return null if there 
aren't any more URLs to be indexed--at that point indexing will stop 
for that server entirely.

What you were seeing was something different--there were URLs still 
on the pile to be indexed, but the server was marked as dead.

--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/

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