Regular & Fill Servers

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Regular & Fill Servers

Postby ppan » Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:54 am

Sorry for a trivial question..
If I have 4 Servers, A & B which are Regular Servers, and C & D which are Fill Servers, the downloads are first tried on the regular servers and then on the fill servers. However, what about the priority between the regular servers and between the fill servers? Is that determined by the order in the Server list or random?

For Example, in the Server List, I have them listed in this order:

Server C (fill)
Server D (fill)
Server A (regular)
Server B (regular)

Would the priority order be A, B, C, D or would it be (A or B random), (C or D random) ?
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Re: Regular & Fill Servers

Postby Quade » Sun Dec 23, 2012 1:22 am

There is no priority except fill and not fill. There is no priority between servers of equal status.

I'm considering it for the future it's not there now.
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Re: Regular & Fill Servers

Postby DThor » Sun Dec 23, 2012 1:23 am

AFAIK, if you have two regular servers, they split up the download simultaneously on a chunk by chunk basis. So, I guess 'random', but it's not random as in newsbin tossing dice. Newsbin uses every connection made available to it and just grabs chunks as fast as it can. I don't believe the order the servers are in are relevant.

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