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Bug 358345 - Primary/Secondary vs Multiple Primaries
Primary/Secondary vs Multiple Primaries
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: Pan
Classification: Other
Component: general
pre-1.0 betas
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Charles Kerr
Pan QA Team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-29 17:34 UTC by wendell
Modified: 2006-10-10 05:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description wendell 2006-09-29 17:34:38 UTC 
The idea of a Primary / Secondary news server config is great. In the case of binary groups and multiple servers, none of which able to max client bandwidth, what about server "clustering"? I've tried various incarnations of defining 2 to 3 servers all as primary, all as secondary and various mixtures in between. It may just not be obvious in the task list but it at least doesn't appear to be communicating with more than 1 of them. For spotty servers which usually only get some of a multi-part binary, being able to combine various parts across multiple servers for a single consistent view would be wonderful.
Comment 1 wendell 2006-09-30 22:54:10 UTC 
Ok, so I was just doing something wrong previously I suspect. I now have 4 servers defined, all as secondary. I can start downloading a few things and it does "load balance" across all 4. Quite nicely actually! Since it is behaving as it is, I'm not 100% certain I understand the primary/secondary designation, but am happy nonetheless...
Comment 2 Charles Kerr 2006-10-10 05:09:00 UTC 
Pan tries to load balance all the servers together all the time,
but only lets fallback servers try to get articles that none
of the primary servers have.