-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-07-21 at 17:09 +0200, Peter Poeml wrote:
Hi,
I am responding to the subject: "what about bittorent for everything?"
(rather old mail -- I didn't realize the question until now though, the original subject of the thread was different))
The answer is: No.
Bittorrent is not suitable for everything, because
1) P2P is only suitable for large files; but many files are tiny. Its overhead and complexity makes it unattractive for small files. P2P's success is largely based on its ability to escape legal control.
I read a study of some European university that contradicted this. They experimentally used bittorrent in the intranet to deploy software updates to the entire intranet (thousands of computer updating (windows?) at the same time, and they discovered that it was way faster than having some dedicated update servers in the same intranet. They found a legal use for it that was better that the normally used solution. For the purpose they used a version of bittorrent client that could not look up in Internet, only intranet. I don't have the reference handy, but some one may recollect this study. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIhN2wtTMYHG2NR9URAhQ+AJ9KRnAjGBrWXmIDllL/yxoV+YXd6ACfaGb4 xHx2mOvP2lQaRTr4AeMq3DA= =tl/g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org