Simon Ruiz wrote: > And her answer was that she started with one seed, as all torrents > do. One.
*His* answer was that *he* started one seed... :-) Having more than one seed can be useful if you have an imager server with a very low bandwidth, in order to speed-up the startup phase. In the environment I used for the tests I needed about 30 seconds to be in steady conditions with 100 and up to 150 clients. If I use more seeds maybe I can only reduce this startup time of few seconds, but it's not so meaningful on the total installation time. Maybe I could consider to do that with 1000 clients... in this case I think the startup phase could be more critical with only one seed... Cheers, -Andrea > > As every machine receives the first piece of the torrent, as soon as > it is able, it begins uploading that piece to others. So one seed > turns into a huge amount of active uploaders as quickly as the seed > can send out different pieces of the torrent to different clients. > > There's a good explanation (and AMAZINGLY clear animated GIF) > explaining the process at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent, if > you're interested. > > HTH > > Simón > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jason > Knudsen Sent: Mon 11/6/2006 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [email protected] Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] > Bittorrent deployment > > > > Morning Andrea, > > Sorry for the misunderstanding - what I meant to ask for was how many > SEEDS were active when you achieved those startling results? (ie: In > terms of performance I was able to install all the 100 nodes (with a > RHEL4 of 2GB) in 4min!!!) > > The more seeds = the greater the speed of distribution right... But > at some point the limit becomes the hard disk speed. I was just > curious to know how many seeds you had to obtain said result? > > Thanks > > Jason > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
