Force Priority Change

[vman2000]

If I have a bunch of low, large priority downloads in the transfer queue (using all the simultaneous connections) and then add a new item to the queue, setting the new item to highest priority I have to wait for one of the low priority items to complete before the HP item is processed (which could be hours).

It would be nice if there was a feature that allowed the more important item to be processed immediately rather than waiting for the trivial items to complete. Possible approaches might be:

1. A 're-evaluate queue now' button/menu option. If newer item takes precedence over a current item then that current item is suspended until the new higher items are processed.

2. Add a new ‘Force’ priority that just jumps to the top of the queue, either pausing a current download if required or possibly creating a new simultaneous connection (so temporarily increasing the number of simultaneous connections above the configured limit – probably best to limit to one forced item per queue in that case)

3. Allow a current item to be manually suspended

4. Just always re-evaluate the queue when a priority is changed.

Thanks,

[vman2000]

(Sorry, that should read 'large, low-priority downloads'!

[Nathaniel Bezanson]

Just created an account to bump this.

Another use case: I set all my priorities before starting the queue, and with 2 simultaneous connections, the last of my high-priority files is slowed down because it's sharing bandwidth with low-priority files.

Ponder: Processing strictly in priority order (not starting a lower priority until the ones above are fully done) might make poor use of bandwidth in the case of small files. So what if that only happened for a gap of >1 priority level? Might be needlessly complex.