[Pan-users] Re: Re: Re: Too many connections error

[Duncan]

Steven Adeff posted
<address@hidden>, excerpted
below,  on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:47:39 -0400:

> right, but if I say have 8 connections and I'd like to use 2 thats 25%, if
> I have 4 and I use 25% its one, but the real point of using percent is
> that I only want to say use 25% of my "bandwidth" allocated by the
> newserver to get headers if I'm downloading other stuff, then I could put
> in 25% and then Pan could figure out how many connections to use for
> header download. It's really just another way of looking at it. My main
> concern is that I'd like to be able to download headers NOW sometimes,
> even if I'm downloading binaries at the same time. Not always, but it
> would be nice =D

The thing is, doing it "now" is possible without allocating bandwidth. 
The scheduler simply takes the next item on the task list whenever a
connection finishes a segment.  Segments are small enough that that's
sensible.  Thus, it's simple to do anything "now", just by moving it to
the top of the queue list (where grabbing overviews wrongly aka headers
goes by default, I believe). It's a generic concept, so no special
handling need be defined or coded.

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