On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:55:13 +0000 (UTC) Heinrich Mueller <eddi...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:35:28 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > Hi. I'm in the process of hacking the pan source code to take > > fuller advantage of my Giganews Diamond account (50 connections!, > > whoo boy!). > > > > I've already modified pan/gui/server-ui.cc to allow me to set the > > server's config to 50 connections (that part was easy), but I'm > > looking now for how to hack pan's task management to do more > > simultaneous header downloads, binary file saves, etc. > > > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'll send back to the > > list anything I come up with, if anyone's interested. > > > > Thanks! > > The problem is pan's use of threads: > If you download one file, the data to be received will be split up on > the server. Pan downloads the parts simultaneously and puts them back > together. But only for one file at a time. > The rewrite would be huge I guess. As the maximum number of > connections can be reached anyway it isn't worth the effort imho. > > Cheers. Yes, further observation of the task queue bears out what you're saying. It's actually not at all unsatisfactory to me, so I'll just leave well enough alone. :-) My earlier impressions of how pan was subdividing the labor were incorrect. Cheers back at you. -- Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net _______________________________________________ Pan-devel mailing list Pan-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-devel
