On Tuesday 23 September 2003 22:14, Terry Churchill wrote:
> My pet monkey insists that on Sep 23 2003 at 01:57PM
>
> Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> warbled:
> > This is worse than downloading a single mirror. If every body did that
> > the stress on the mirrors would be much worse than it is already. The
> > good thing about bittorrent is that clients would get better speeds than
> > they are currently with only a tiny amount of extra stress put on the
> > mirrors. Depending on how nice clients are on average, it could actually
> > lessen the stress on the mirrors while still increasing overall bandwidth
> > of downloads.
>
> TBH I don't see what bittorrent has got overly a properly configured
> make.conf. I used mirrorselect way back when I originally installed gentoo
> & have never had less than around 250Kb from the mirrors.
>
> Sure, the mirrors need a lot of bandwidth, but I'm sure they understand
> that when setting them up.
Similarly, I get about 600Kb. But the point is scalability; what happens when
there's 10 times as many users as there are now? Any system administrator
will tell you that the issue of scalability is best handled proactively.
Jason
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