"Guilhem Bonnefille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:09:02 +0100:
> I do not found the meanning of the "Server rank" attribute (primary or > fallback) of the server properties. What's for? How to configure it? How > to ellect a server for "primary" and another for "fallback"? That determines the groups of servers which pan considers equal in terms of download scheduling. Everything at the primary level will be scheduled on a connection available basis. Only when all primary servers have been tried and a particular post isn't available to download from any of them, will pan fallback to the second level to retrieve it there. The idea is that many folks have ISP bundled or otherwise free or flat rate servers to set to primary, but have one or more fallback servers that cost more and are either monthly byte-limited or block accounts, such that they don't want to use up this expensive and limited resource unless absolutely necessary. Server ranking enables pan to manage that automatically. BTW, while pan's GUI server dialog only has primary and fallback as choices, keeping things simple, by editing the server rank entries directly in the servers.xml config file, you can set as many ranks as desired. Suppose you have an ISP and a flat-rate paid server set at primary rank, since it costs you nothing more to use them no matter how much you use, and have two additional servers available, one limited to say five gig download a month billed monthly, the other a 25 gig unexpiring block account. In this case, the five gig per month server should be ranked second, since that limit expires each month if it's not used, while the block account can be ranked third, since it never expires, so you want to use up bytes on it only if necessary, thus extending the use of the block over a longer period. That'd have to be done by editing the servers.xml file directly, since the GUI config only has a single fallback level, and this situation would call for two. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
