>> For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new >> images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if >> you have a "fat" pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS servers. >> >> I have a "chubby" pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff really quickly >> earlier today. >> >> If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that >> you also use that feature. > > Sharing as fast as I can, never seen this kind of activity before, it's like a > shark feeding frenzy... The CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD torrent I'm seeding says > the share ratio is 40928, and rapidly increasing. That can't possibly be > right, can it?? > > Have to cap the upload speed to 25kBps during work hours, or my computer would > be unusable. Maybe I should move this seeding to a CentOS-machine instead... > > DHT is enabled over here as well. Hi there, there's really some traffic going on torrent-wise: [View: main] CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD done 3787,1 MB Rate: 928,2 / 0,0 KB Uploaded: 142450,0 MB [View: main] CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD done 4346,3 MB Rate: 194,7 / 0,0 KB Uploaded: 100310,6 MB ;) [both have a upload limit of 2Mbps, which is sometimes hit.] Cheers, Timo