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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:14:23PM -0400, Caleb Shay wrote: |
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> What happens now is, if the user has the bittorrent FEATURE enabled, AND |
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> has bittorrent installed (much like what is required to use the ccache |
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> feature), and the package has a torrent available, we can then use |
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> btdownloadheadless.py or btdownloadcurses.py to download the file (ie, |
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> btdownloadheadl.py --url http://torrent.gentoo.org/${A}.torrent --saveas |
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> /usr/portage/distfiles/${A}). This takes load off of the download |
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> mirrors, and helps everybody achieve maximum bandwidth while |
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> downloading. |
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Two questions here: |
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How much bandwidth is required for each bittorrent tracker? Nowhere I |
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have I seen this information. |
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Secondly for people to be able to offer the package to the BT network, |
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that means they would have it on their hard drive, and be running an |
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active program to provide it 24x7. So far what I have seen of BT is that |
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it takes one program instance per tracked file. In that case things are |
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going to get very big, very fast. Additionally I certianly will not be |
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letting people eat the bandwidth that I pay for on my servers at work. |
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Some residential cable and DSL ISPs are also very anal about bandwidth |
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usage so that could cause serious issues there (a friends ISP limits him |
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to 1GiB/day). |
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Your idea would be wonderful if bandwidth were free, or at least |
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significently cheaper than it is now for much of the world. |
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> A bittorrent server (this is the infrastructure part), that maintains |
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> torrents of the larger packages (I define larger as 20MB+), such as |
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> XFree. |
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Looking at the master distfiles directory, there are 343 files larger |
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than 10MiB. Only 140 files larger than 20MiB. There are 9316 files in |
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total, spanning 18Gb. The 343 files take up 9.4Gb of space. So they are |
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definetely out of proportion. So having a lower limit would be better. |
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