I have the impression that the mult-server fetch strategy of Pan is as follows. It keeps headers of its various servers, and remembers which server claims to have which articles.
When a multi-part article is to be saved, it looks at all the parts and assigns which server is going to supply which. Then, it tries to download them from those pre-determined servers. However, my news server quite often claims to have some article, but then when Pan tries to fetch it, it doesn't have it. However there is now no failover to another server. In the mean time, the article stays Queued at for instance 95% and never finishes. I found a tedious workaround. What I can do is to edit the news servers' priorities. Then I need to remove the articles from the download queue and re-save then. Only then the new server priority settings take effect. If this happens for a significant number of articles it is a lot of work to do, and if you wait for all downloads to cease, maybe not everything that is downloaded but not decoded is in the cache anymore. I'm looking in the code (starting at task-article.cc which seems related to this) to see where this happens and if I can change it, but I'm not familiar with the code and it's quite complex. Maybe somebody with more experience / knowledge can have a look? -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- 'this bath is too hot.'
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