How does "server priority" work

Pegleg · Post by **Pegleg** » Tue May 13, 2003 9:38 pm

Alex
How do you arrange the queue for "say" 25 articles or parts with respect to server priority.

Sort article task queue by date is on.

Do you, take the the oldest article and go through the highest (100) value servers (strict is also on)

then go through the next lower (70S) value server with the same article
then 50S ........
or
go through the highest server (100) with the next oldest article

The different results would be
- the oldest article would be tried from all servers before moving to the next oldest.
or
- all articles would be tried (in reverse age order) on the highest priority servers, then all remaining articles (same order) on the next priority server ?

If I haven't explained the question well let me know and I'll try again.

(It gets worse because the next question is - I assume "download and save with priority xx" will cause the higher priority articles to be a subset "sort article task by queue date" added at the front of the
current articles queue)

Pegleg

alex · Post by **alex** » Tue May 13, 2003 10:13 pm

there are some optimizations to make it faster but the result is exactly as the following:

tries to launch the first task in the queue (if sorted by date - the oldest).

then tries to launch the next task etc.

etc. until the end of the queue

if it couldn't launch a task (e.g. it stopped on a strict server) the task will remain in pending, but it is possible some subsequent tasks in the queue (with different server set) will be launched.