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

Mon Jan 17 21:57:32 CET 2011

Am 13.01.2011 20:52, schrieb Michael Scherer:
+> Le jeudi 13 janvier 2011 à 20:21 +0100, Marcello Anni a écrit :
+>>>> and what's better than bittorrent protocol to use user
+>>>> available bandwith to do this? i would like to know:
+>
+> And I do know that bittorrent was said to overload the routing
+> infrastructure of the internet ( more connections to keep, more routing,
+> etc ). Especially now that more and more networks are fragmented ( ie,
+> no more big /24 routing, the lack of ipv4 requires to redistribute small
+> part of the address space on various place )
+
+If really needed i can dig up some analysis about overall worldwide
+traffic in relation to bittorrent, but i can already tell you that
+mostly on any day some of the time bittorrent creates 50-60%
+of worldwide traffic.
+
+So better not increase this, and i think it would also not be very
+practical for the tracker, which would need to keep at some point
+say 500.000 torrents (for every package in the distribution,
+including multiple archs, debug packages and so on)
+And then lets multiply this with three for three releases ...?
+
+No, i'm against it. I don't see what's wrong with the current system
+as it is working well for those who configure it properly.
+
+Regards
+
+