[CentOS] Re: Jigdoes of CentOS 4.4 and 5.0 i386/x86_64 CD/DVD available.

Tue Apr 17 02:40:22 UTC 2007
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Scott Silva wrote:
> I was just thinking of the bandwidth that the CentOS team doesn't have to pay
> for with bittorrent. 
>   


indeed.  As of 7:35pm PDT Monday, the CentOS5 torrents have downloaded...

    5.0 i386 DVD  - 10679 times, 36.1 terabytes
    5.0 x86_64 DVD - 3422 times, 13.34 terabytes
    5.0 i386 6 CD set - 1958 times, 6.62 terabytes
    5.0 x86_64 7 CD set - 379 times, 1.47 terabytes

grand total:   16438 complete downloads, and 57.5 terabytes.

thats a LOTTA transit bandwidth taken off of the mirrors.   This is 
entirely since Thursday AM, i.e. in the last ~ 4 days.

note they use the decimal version of tera here, or 1,000,000,000,000