Re: [Pan-users] question about tasks

[Duncan]

On Sun 17 Aug 2003 01:11, K. Haley posted as excerpted below:
> Currently when I download flagged articles pan puts all the articles
> into a single task.  When did this change and why?  If one of the
> articles can't be downloaded, say because the article number does not
> exist, the entire task stops.  I definitely prefered the old behaviour
> of a seperate task for each article.

Since I never flag articles, just select and hit d/l, I can't say for sure on 
the flagged task behavior.  However, the way PAN scheduled tasks did change 
with the introduction of the gnet library, several versions ago.  There may 
have been other more recent changes since I've noticed the problem you 
mention a couple times only recently, but that may have been just 
happenstance.  However, if you are talking about the gnet changes, overall, 
the handling is far better now I think, since PAN puts all threads to work on 
the latest task rather than having one d/l thread for each task.

Of course, the observed bug still exists, but IMO the bug is that PAN fails to 
simply drop an unsuccessful retrieval and continue with the task, not in the 
way it handles scheduling in the first place.  It should be more robust with 
its handling of missing bodies and continue with the task rather than halting 
it.  IMO, that's the real bug.

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