Re: young Fedora torrents spread data too slowly

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On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Chuck Anderson wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:49:57PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, John Reiser wrote:
> >
> > > Young torrents on http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ spread data too slowly.
> > > At 0500 UTC on Sat.Oct.11, there was 1 seed and 14 leeches, all at 13% done.
> > > At 1300 UTC on Sat.Oct.11, there was 1 seed and 31 leeches, all at 55% done.
> > > This is for F10-Snap1-x86_64-Live.
> > > I turned my machine off for the night (US PDT), powered on in the morning,
> > > and within half an hour had caught up to all leeches at 57% done.
> > > I use tranmsissionbt, and I saw that the seed was sending pieces of 256 KiB
> > > to me at 2.5 KiB/s, taking almost two minutes per piece (and then "pausing.")
> > >
> > > It seems to me that torrent.fedoraproject.org is overloaded, and that a change
> > > in policy would give sooner completion to everybody, even without more
> > > resources.
> >
> > I wouldn't say overloaded.  Throttled is the right word, and we do have it
> > throttled.  Although even throttled on one machine I was able to download
> > the latest live beta in roughly 10 minutes on my slicehost.com host, and
> > closer to 9 hours on my workstation at home.  Its always difficult to tell
> > where the slowness happens but I suspect in my slow case it was because my
> > ISP was limiting my traffic and slicehost.com was not.
>
> I'm on multiple gig links, unrestricted, and it is taking an eternity
> to download the Snap1 images.
>

Seriously, this is a devel list, not an end-user list.  Quantitative
values will get taken seriously, "eternity" won't unless you're actually
telling me they're failing to download.

	-Mike

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