> Okay, I'll experiment with it. Question for Charles [or anyone]: how > does Pan allocate the jobs between servers; and can the mechanism be > specified by the user? Example: I would want the bulk of downloads > to come from any servers which don't charge by usage (usually my own > ISP) and any backup fills from the more expensive servers. This strikes > me as a non-trivial task. I wonder how the Windows-based downloaders > solve this problem (I don't use Windows so I've never tried them.)
0.90 through 0.94 allocate them via whatever server connection is on hand in the server pool, so the fastest servers get the lion's share. 0.95 (due tomorrow) has a new option in the Edit Server dialog where you can designate a server as a primary or backup, so that the free servers can all try first, then the pay servers can fill in any missing pieces. (side note for Duncan: though it's not in the GUI, you can specify more than two tiers of server by changing the 'rank' attribute in servers.xml from [1..2] to [1..INT_MAX]) cheers, Charles _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
