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If you have items marked as Immediate, and other task marked as Normal, running a total of 20 task, shouldn't UE use all 20 task to download the items marked as Immediate first, until there is less than 20 left in that one marked Immediate? Then run the Normal task?

Usually yes, unless you have several servers, e.g. immediate tasks exhausted all attempts on one server (e.g. no such article), then normal tasks may be downloaded from that server even as immediate tasks are still being downloaded from another server.

In short should be some explanation, the program just goes through the queue starting from the topmost entry and there is a reason why it couldn't accomodate those immediate priority entries and since there were still available tasks slots it used them to start downloading lower priority entries.

alex wrote:Usually yes, unless you have several servers, e.g. immediate tasks exhausted all attempts on one server (e.g. no such article), then normal tasks may be downloaded from that server even as immediate tasks are still being downloaded from another server.

In short should be some explanation, the program just goes through the queue starting from the topmost entry and there is a reason why it couldn't accomodate those immediate priority entries and since there were still available tasks slots it used them to start downloading lower priority entries.

Thank you