Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2827 mails)

["Amedee Van Gasse" <amedee@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, December 16, 2008 09:11, Clayton wrote:
> > The topic is probably more suitable for opensuse-project - it's not
> > really a general user topic.
> > I'm sure it can be done, but is it necessary? Isn't the whole point (of
> > torrent) that there won't _be_ any massive hammering on any servers?
> > As long as there is a good initial feed, the torrents will slowly pick
> > up and that's it.
>
> OK, I can post on that list.
>
> Is it necessary?  Well... did you try to go download the Torrent file
> to start your torrent when 11.0 was released?  I couldn't get to the
> server for 3 days - OK I wasn't trying every 30 seconds for 3 days
> straight, but every time I'd go to try and get the torrent, I'd get
> timeouts.  I could go get it from Mininova, PirateBay etc, but... I
> prefer to get something like this from a reliable source rather than
> the dubious torrent sites.
>
> Providing the torrent early without enabling the tracker means that
> our BitTorrent clients would just idle until the tracker was "on".  It
> also means that the regulars here could immediately start assisting in
> the seeding without also having to hammer the openSUSE website hoping
> that they can get in long enough to grab the Torrent file.

My ISP gives me 60 GiB/month and 1Mbps upload. I think I can donate about
40 GiB to OpenSuse this month.
It's not much, I know, but everything helps.

-- 
Amedee

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