[Pan-users] Re: Pan limited to 4 threads ?

[Duncan]

John Aldrich <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu, 28 Feb
2008 10:26:51 -0500:

> On Thursday 28 February 2008, Frouin Jean-Michel wrote:
>> Thanks for your answer, I think about this solution but I ask the
>> question before to be sure there is no hidden option ! Another small
>> question, what is GNKSA  ? Best regards,
>>
> GNKSA=Good Net Keeping Seal of Approval

Yes.  See the pan site (http://pan.rebelbase.com) for a link to GNKSA 
info, but that's one thing Charles (with support from most regulars, who 
after all must like the general pan policies or they'd not end up being 
regulars) won't consider at all -- any changes that break GNKSA test 
compatibility.  He's rightly very proud of that 100% GNKSA rating! =8^)
 
> I don't know about the most recent versions as I haven't tried, but it
> used to be that you could just edit the config file manually and it
> would override the 4 thread limit.

Correct.  servers.xml, in the pan data dir, by default ~/.pan2/ (for Unix 
installations, new-pan, v0.90+).

If you aren't the text/xml config file editing type, note that pan 
handles multiple servers automatically.  You can of course point two or 
more different pan servers at the same news server address, if desired, 
thus giving you up to 8 connections for two, 12 for three, etc, even just 
using the GUI.  Of course, doing it that way means a bit more waste of 
resources as pan tracks the same data on multiple servers, but it's still 
possible.

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