Folks. This is likely to be the hardest hit CentOS has ever taken with regards to bandwidth needs. I was really hesitant to use bittorrent for this type of thing for a long time. However, it really is nice to give back at least what you take. At the moment, I'm seeing almost 3000 connections to the torrent. That times 3.5 gigs is a pretty huge chunk of data... and it has just begun. What I'm getting at here, is CentOS gives a LOT! If you have never considered doing your downloads via a torrent, please do consider this and try to give back at least the bandwidth you use. I'm sure the CentOS team will appreciate this more than you will ever know. Me? I'm downloading via a winders box and I use bit tornado which is extremely flexible in setting upload and download allowances as well as the number of connections. And it's free. I'm sure others use many of the other aps available.. just please consider using the torrent. Best, John Hinton
Oh. Never mind my previous post... -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of John Hinton Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:19 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and bittorrent Folks. This is likely to be the hardest hit CentOS has ever taken with regards to bandwidth needs. I was really hesitant to use bittorrent for this type of thing for a long time. However, it really is nice to give back at least what you take. At the moment, I'm seeing almost 3000 connections to the torrent. That times 3.5 gigs is a pretty huge chunk of data... and it has just begun. What I'm getting at here, is CentOS gives a LOT! If you have never considered doing your downloads via a torrent, please do consider this and try to give back at least the bandwidth you use. I'm sure the CentOS team will appreciate this more than you will ever know. Me? I'm downloading via a winders box and I use bit tornado which is extremely flexible in setting upload and download allowances as well as the number of connections. And it's free. I'm sure others use many of the other aps available.. just please consider using the torrent. Best, John Hinton _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
John Hinton wrote:> Folks. This is likely to be the hardest hit CentOS has ever taken with > regards to bandwidth needs. > > I was really hesitant to use bittorrent for this type of thing for a > long time. However, it really is nice to give back at least what you > take. At the moment, I'm seeing almost 3000 connections to the > torrent. That times 3.5 gigs is a pretty huge chunk of data... and it > has just begun. > > What I'm getting at here, is CentOS gives a LOT! If you have never > considered doing your downloads via a torrent, please do consider this > and try to give back at least the bandwidth you use. I'm sure the > CentOS team will appreciate this more than you will ever know. > > Me? I'm downloading via a winders box and I use bit tornado which is > extremely flexible in setting upload and download allowances as well > as the number of connections. And it's free. I'm sure others use many > of the other aps available.. just please consider using the torrent.If someone wants to send me a cheat sheet on how to run a command line version of bitorrent, I'll throw one up on a reasonably beefy machine at the datacenter that's got multiple gigE links to the net. Cheers,
On 4/12/07, John Hinton <webmaster at ew3d.com> wrote:> Folks. This is likely to be the hardest hit CentOS has ever taken with > regards to bandwidth needs. > > I was really hesitant to use bittorrent for this type of thing for a > long time. However, it really is nice to give back at least what you > take. At the moment, I'm seeing almost 3000 connections to the torrent. > That times 3.5 gigs is a pretty huge chunk of data... and it has just begun.I will try seeding once I get home. bittorrent is disabled at work. Our IT department has no intention of allowing it. Akemi
John Hinton wrote:> Folks. This is likely to be the hardest hit CentOS has ever taken with > regards to bandwidth needs. > > I was really hesitant to use bittorrent for this type of thing for a > long time. However, it really is nice to give back at least what you > take. At the moment, I'm seeing almost 3000 connections to the > torrent. That times 3.5 gigs is a pretty huge chunk of data... and it > has just begun.Interesting... the torrent is now showing just under 8000 connections! The word is getting out. Likely, CentOS is more widespread in use than most of us realize. I can only imagine what the mirrors are experiencing. And, the torrents do take loads off those mirrors, so CentOS is likely to not get as much grief about huge downloads if we can do what we can to reduce that load. Sort of like protecting our own systems.. being polite.. that sort of thing. Hmmm.. now make that 9000 torrents. JHinton> > What I'm getting at here, is CentOS gives a LOT! If you have never > considered doing your downloads via a torrent, please do consider this > and try to give back at least the bandwidth you use. I'm sure the > CentOS team will appreciate this more than you will ever know. > > Me? I'm downloading via a winders box and I use bit tornado which is > extremely flexible in setting upload and download allowances as well > as the number of connections. And it's free. I'm sure others use many > of the other aps available.. just please consider using the torrent. > > Best, > John Hinton > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > !DSPAM:461e6a60116687393515732! >
CentOS5 Final is released? I missed the announce message, and BTW, where are the .torrent files? http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.0/isos/i386/ Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. | Get my e-mail after a captcha in: Asuncion - Paraguay | http://tinymailto.com/oliver
John Hinton spake the following on 4/12/2007 10:19 AM:> Folks. This is likely to be the hardest hit CentOS has ever taken with > regards to bandwidth needs. > > I was really hesitant to use bittorrent for this type of thing for a > long time. However, it really is nice to give back at least what you > take. At the moment, I'm seeing almost 3000 connections to the torrent. > That times 3.5 gigs is a pretty huge chunk of data... and it has just > begun. > > What I'm getting at here, is CentOS gives a LOT! If you have never > considered doing your downloads via a torrent, please do consider this > and try to give back at least the bandwidth you use. I'm sure the CentOS > team will appreciate this more than you will ever know. > > Me? I'm downloading via a winders box and I use bit tornado which is > extremely flexible in setting upload and download allowances as well as > the number of connections. And it's free. I'm sure others use many of > the other aps available.. just please consider using the torrent. > > Best, > John HintonI have been seeding the 4.4 i386 dvd for 3 or 4 months, and will probably seed 5 for at least that long. I was seeding the 4.4 x86_64 dvd for a while, but didn't seem to have any peers, so I stopped it. You can give back a small bit of bandwidth and not notice it, but if those 3000 people each gave back a couple of K's, that is a lot of bang and keeps the costs down for the CentOS team. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!