downloadlimit per server

telex · Post by **telex** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:57 am

Is there a setting to setup every server downloadlimit.
For example I can dowload at "news.teranews.com" 50MB per day.
Newspro know 50MB is the limit and can stopp to search after 50MB for headers.

alex · Post by **alex** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:30 am

in properties->general set non-empty/zero 'suspend server for' in 'exceeding download limit', the recommended value is 30 min, also uncheck the warning box to avoid repeated warnings. the exceeding download limit wildmat should match the server error message but i think the default is ok with teranews.

also you may reset download limits at certain time, in the workspace window, servers (second pane), select the server, in the context menu invoke 'set auto reset time', but it is optional, just it also resets counter and if you know the time it will try exactly at that time (better set it several minutes later to be sure).

telex · Post by **telex** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:41 am

That means that after 30 min newspro recognize that the server xy has arrived the limit and stopped? Why 30 min?
Do I have to enter the servername in this box?

alex · Post by **alex** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:46 am

30 min means that on average in 15 (30/2) minutes after the server went active again it will be retried (there is the other setting to make it exact and reset the bandwidth counter and download limit), it is retried every 30 min. it recognizes the server reached the limit immediately and suspends its tasks.

Just there is no need for per server option here thus increasing the number of options wouldn't be clever, since the scheme works just fine, there is no tangible impact on anything.

Bandwidth counter is for user so you can see how much has been downloaded and the download limit is something totally separate in the program code, it is an event triggered by server exceeding download limit error message.

telex · Post by **telex** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 11:27 am

Bandwidth counter is the number on the server or group [xxxxx]??
But the number [38053].... What is that in MByte ? 38?

alex · Post by **alex** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 11:48 am

example:

news.savvis.net [ 1089 ] 12.05M

1089 is the number of headers in all groups on the server

12.05M is the bandwidth count (MBytes)

blackdog56 · Post by **blackdog56** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 11:49 am

For servers and groups, the number in the brackets [xxxx] is the number of posts/messages. For servers, there should be amount downloaded in MB to the right of that.

telex · Post by **telex** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 11:53 am

oooh, I see. Sorry.

But for headers it would be great to see the body in MByte to.

blackdog56 · Post by **blackdog56** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 1:03 pm

The bandwidth in servers shown is MB is both headers and bodies I believe.

telex · Post by **telex** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:55 pm

Yes, but I meant : I don't know how big is that body or that or that. For example a multipart binary file, how big is every part in Mbyte...
I only see "lines" and have no relationship to Mbyte or Megabit.

blackdog56 · Post by **blackdog56** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 5:09 pm

Alex can give the precise technical answer, but lines are known from the news server. How many MB that is depends on several factors, such as how it is encoded (UUE, yEnc, etc) and other factors and is a best guess only, for all newsreaders.

alex · Post by **alex** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 1:48 am

currently newspro doesn't keep the size, it will be the case some time later, just now it would bring additional overhead.