[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download

Wed Jan 12 09:43:13 CET 2011

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:29, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 21:45 -0500, andre999 a écrit :
+>> Some suggestions for faster downloads without bittorrent.
+>> 1) use aria2c (or a similar application), which uses multiple
+>> connections, defaulting to 5, and allows multiple mirrors.
+>> By default it starts by allocating space for the file to be downloaded,
+>> which allows non-sequential downloading of the file, facilitating faster
+>> downloading from multiple sites.
+>>
+>> 2) use mirrors which allow multiple connexions.
+>> (Of course, with download software that takes advantage of this.)
+>>
+>> 3) use multiple mirrors.
+>> (Again, according to download software.)
+>
+> Theses 3 suggestions basically put X time the load of the mirror for
+> each client. ( or on more mirror, for that matters ).
+
+However, if 1) was to open 5 connections on 5 distinct servers, that
+would make more sense, no?
+
+But then I'm not sure there is so much more value than using a P2P protocol.
+
+Romain
+