On Sunday 09 Oct 2005 19:41, Jon Jennings wrote: > The first number for each pair is the number of seeds or peers that > you're connected to for this torrent. Once you've completed your > download this number in the seeds column should be zero (cos you > don't need to talk to the seeds any more - neither of you has > anything that the other one wants). > > The second number is the number of seeds or peers in the entire > swarm. > > It's odd that Anne's connected to more peers than the tracker knows > about. This may be due to the distributed database stuff in the > latest version of BitTorrent. This allows peers to find out about > other peers from peers themselves rather than having to be told about > them directly from the tracker. This is excellent when you've got a > heavily overloaded tracker as you can continue to get updates even > when you can't connect to the tracker. > Very interesting, Jon. Thanks.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Mandriva hints & tips: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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