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 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
