On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2006-12-08 at 22:17 +0100, jdd sur free wrote:
The torrents were originally very fast but the pace dropped down after the initial flood
no drop here, on the contrary the number of clients/servers increase. the more are for the i386 dvd, of course. I have now 730 sources and 3303 clients for it (326/1144 for the x86_64 dvd)
No, it is slow: my torrent download is going slow: 58% in 22 hours... ie, less than 30 KB/S avg, a third of my bandwidth. This matchs what you say, that you see more clients. And remember, adsl is asymetric, we can not seed as fast as we download.
You can use metalink and use the stuff I added to the page. 30 people have verified that it works with rsync to correct problems. It is extremely fast repaiging them.
From the point of view of metalink, this release seems to have gone pretty well. I spent some time in #suse & would like to thank apokryphos, yaloki, bgerber, benjiman, and the others helping everyone out that was trying to get the ISOs. And Manuel Subredu, at the RoEduNet Iasi mirror who wrote the software generating the .metalinks.
It looks like there were twenty thousand .metalink downloads in the first day. Obviously, most mirrors were stressed from the sudden onslaught and people were having trouble getting the ISOs or getting them very slowly. Some mirrors crawl, while others do better. I saw quite a few people learning about metalink for the first time. Everyone reported good download speeds (usually their max). A few reported checksum errors, which could not be avoided due to the situation, but were repaired with rsync. (Except for Carlos' problem). The chunk checksums should soon correct this, when they've been added to clients. I always thought manually gathering URLs was annoying and I'm glad I could finally talk some people into trying metalink. Having the multiple redundant URLs and automating it is all much simpler. It would be nice if there were official RPMs for aria2, hopefully enough people were exposed to it and had a good experience. KDE4's KGet should also support metalink so that should be much easier for average people. (( Anthony Bryan )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org