CentOS - Apr 2009 - Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new
images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if
you have a "fat" pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS servers.

I have a "chubby" pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff really quickly
earlier today.

If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that
you also use that feature.

Happy sharing!

-- 
Bill

William L. Maltby wrote:
> For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new
> images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if
> you have a "fat" pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS
servers.
>
> I have a "chubby" pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff really
quickly
> earlier today.
>
> If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that
> you also use that feature.
>   
My torrent is not always happy. Nobody wants to make full use of my 
allocated 6MB upload bandwidth. So torrent away please.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
>Of William L. Maltby
>Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:26 AM
>To: CentOS General List
>Subject: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
>
>For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new
>images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if
>you have a "fat" pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS
servers.
>
>I have a "chubby" pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff really
quickly
>earlier today.
>
>If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that
>you also use that feature.
Sharing as fast as I can, never seen this kind of activity before, it's like
a
shark feeding frenzy... The CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD torrent I'm seeding
says
the share ratio is 40928, and rapidly increasing. That can't possibly be 
right, can it??

Have to cap the upload speed to 25kBps during work hours, or my computer would 
be unusable. Maybe I should move this seeding to a CentOS-machine instead...

DHT is enabled over here as well.
-- 
/Sorin
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>> For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new
>> images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if
>> you have a "fat" pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS
servers.
>>
>> I have a "chubby" pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff really
quickly
>> earlier today.
>>
>> If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that
>> you also use that feature.
> 
> Sharing as fast as I can, never seen this kind of activity before, it's
like a
> shark feeding frenzy... The CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD torrent I'm
seeding says
> the share ratio is 40928, and rapidly increasing. That can't possibly
be
> right, can it??
> 
> Have to cap the upload speed to 25kBps during work hours, or my computer
would
> be unusable. Maybe I should move this seeding to a CentOS-machine
instead...
> 
> DHT is enabled over here as well.
Hi there,

there's really some traffic going on torrent-wise:

[View: main]
CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD
done     3787,1 MB Rate: 928,2 /   0,0 KB Uploaded: 142450,0 MB

[View: main]
CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD
done     4346,3 MB Rate: 194,7 /   0,0 KB Uploaded: 100310,6 MB

;)

[both have a upload limit of 2Mbps, which is sometimes hit.]

Cheers,

Timo

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:26, William L. Maltby wrote:
>  If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that
>  you also use that feature.
>
>  Happy sharing!
So what is everyone using for their torrent?
What is the best?


-- 

Regards
Robert

Linux User #296285
http://counter.li.org

Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at
centos.org] On
> Behalf
>> Of John R Pierce
>> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:38 PM
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your
downloads!
>>
>>> here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4 main
'seeds' that
>>> came up were each running with 100mbps open uplinks. Atleast one
person
>>> in the early stages was running at 200 odd mbps.
>>>
>>
>> geez, makes me wonder if I should even bother to leave mine running
with
>> a 50kbyte/sec uplink ca (thats about 500kbps)...   if I raise the cap
>> much higher, it seriously throttles my home network (6Mbps in, 700k
>> out)... I know, I know, I should implement some form of QoS or packet
>> prioritization at my firewall.
> 
> Every little stream helps when using bittorrent, even at 50kbps upstream,
so
> keep seeding! ;-)
> 
> I think my ISP at home has done something with regard to p2p. I can't
seed
> at home anymore for some reason... 8-/
Mine limits me to 40k up - leave it running long enough though, and it 
is easy to give back several times what you took.

As far as home networks, I found that when I was running NAT on Linux 
(RH8 through FC2 days) - bt really screwed up my home network. However, 
when using hardware routers, even the cheap consumer kind (Linksys) the 
home network is fine. I think bt is very hard on software routing.