[CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

Tue Dec 18 11:48:58 UTC 2007
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 20:24 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> centos at 911networks.com wrote:
> > Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. 

When I did 5.0 and 4.5, I got great results, but I saw lots of peers
then. This time I've seen many fewer and that is causing the abysmal
results I saw.

> >
> >   
> 
> the port your client is using for torrent should be enabled in any 
> firewalls (and if you're being NAT, it should be forwarded).   If i'm in 
> a corporate environment where this is impossible, I'll use a shell 
> server outside the company network, torrent from there, then rsync-slurp 
> it at night.

I think this is not my situation? At home, have an IPCop latest (same as
before, but latest release) and all private network. AFAIK, I don't need
to do any of that manually. No?

I saw in another post that a provider might be causing a problem. I'm on
TWC down south. Any way to test and tell?

> 
> torrents may start slow, but if its all working right, they generally 
> pick up speed pretty quickly and run at near wire speeds, especially one 
> as well seeded as this one   they transfer symetrically over the 
> sockets, sending and recieving data on all peer connections, this can 
> hammer a network connection, so most torrent clients have a feature to 
> bandwidth limit (I often choose a number around 60% of the pipe speed)

I don't throttle mine unless I'm in a big hurry (s  e  l  d  o  m
    *(YAWN)*  ).

AFAICT, there just weren't many peers out there offering to participate.

> <snip sig stuff>

Both my systems are already up-to-date. I'm just getting the images for
backup, new installs and to share via torrent.

I saw one poster mention rsync. I would expect the rebuilds had lots of
underlying lib changes along with some higher-level code. I suspect
rsync wouldn't match a lot.

Anyway, doing a normal dnld ATM and will share the images ASAP.

-- 
Bill