On Wednesday 20 January 2016 19:25:48 Duncan wrote: > Dave posted on Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:33:41 +0000 as excerpted: > > > Is there any way to tell or see "live" which server Pan is pulling from? > > > > I have a "free" ISP news server and a pay server from which I buy blocks > > of data as backup/fills and it might be nice to see how much is coming > > from the pay server. > > Do you have your fill server set as "fallback" in the servers > configuration? (If you have more than two servers, you can actually set > more than the primary/fallback by editing servers.xml directly, and pan > will behave accordingly, but the simplified GUI just has the two > levels.) That's the main thing.
Yup, ISP server set as primary, pay server set as fallback. The ISP server used to be excellent (for up to about 10-14 days worth of retention anyway), but was missing one or two groups I use. Recently they dropped some high traffic groups and rumour is that they may be dropping usenet completely so sadly this might not be a problem anyway in a few months. > With servers at the same level, servers that have significantly less > messages will naturally tend to move ahead faster as they'll skip > messages they don't have, which will mean that you just normally get the > messages from them that they have available, because their fetch process > will get to them first, while the fill server is stuck back a ways > because it has more messages to pull. > > But server rank makes that explicit, and won't pull from a fallback > server until all primary servers are checked for the message. So the > first thing to do if you want to be sure to get all you can from your > primary server and save the bandwidth on the fallback, is set them as > such in the server configuration. > > Beyond that, it has been awhile since I did binaries on multi-server (or > for that matter, at all, tho I do have a 1000 GB block account that I use > occasionally), but from looking just now on the single-server text I'm > doing, the log doesn't contain server information, only actions. > > But the bandwidth indicator to the left in the status bar, should show > per-server activity if you hover over it. As a long term Pan user of many years, I never noticed that. I think that'll do initially at least to keep an eye on things. Thanks! > Beyond that, I seem to > remember a couple other ways it was tracked, but I've not done multi- > server or binaries in long enough I don't remember the details, and what > I do remember, I can't be sure whether it's current pan, or the old C- > based pan from about a decade ago, that worked quite differently in terms > of multi-server. > > Hopefully someone who does multi-server and/or binaries a bit more > regularly will followup with more detail. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
