Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:38:15 -0800 From: Andrew Lentvorski <bsder@allcaps.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? Message-ID: <45E0F697.2030005@allcaps.org>
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Can we please get the FreeBSD torrent tracker and/or server back? I was sitting here staring at an FTP from ftp5.us.freebsd.org that was bouncing around between 200-250KB/s. Even switching over to ftp1.us.freebsd.org is only getting me around 450KB/s-and that is bouncing up and down (my upload is only showing 12.7KB/s, so it's not choking for lack of return ACK's). That's about 1/3 - 2/3 compared with even a lightly seeded Bittorrent cluster pulling a Linux ISO torrent. A Linux torrent will saturate my download somewhere north of 600KB/s and park it there until the ISO completes. For reference, the old FreeBSD torrent file, even *without* the FreeBSD tracker, operating solely from 10 old seeders, and the Azureus distrubuted hash table, is delivering almost the same download as ftp5.us.freebsd.org. And that's effectively an abandoned torrent. I have read some of the previous comments about using torrents, but the fact that the mirrors are clearly *not* as fast as a torrent cluster warrants some discussion. Thanks, -a
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