On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 22:49 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Till Maas wrote: > > > On Sat October 11 2008, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > > > I'm testing from another host in the EU right now and I'm getting > > > somewhere around 3090.3 KB/s. I'm all for quicker torrent downloads so if > > > y'all want to stop by #fedora-admin and chat it up perhaps we can come up > > > with a fix or better guidelines on how to use torrent or something. > > > > We need more seeds at the beginning and more people with access to the isos. > > Dennis Gilmore finally managed to acquire the isos somehow and seeded them > > and this made it possible for everybody else to download them, too. > > > > I'll have a talk with Jesse. For the normal releases we typically have > multiple seeders from the start. For these sorts of snapshots I suspect > some steps can be taken to ensure better usability here. I talked with > Seth a bit about this too (he's our current torrent wrangler) and we > generally think this was just an issue with two many chunks and not enough > people for chunks from the beginning. Which is self correcting but A) > is annoying and B) is preventable in the future. We just have to figure > out the procedure on it. > If we have a spare site with lots of bandwidth to spare and works with torrents we can set it up to be a second seed for whatever. automating it will be an ugh but not undoable. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
