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.
I didn't mean to say you were off-topic, just that you might be getting better answers or more interest there.
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
Yes, I retrieved the torrent files (ppc,x86_64 and i386) and added them to my permanently active btpd client. I don't remember if it was right after the release, and I didn't really watch over it, but I'm sure I had the DVD downloaded within a few hours. I'll try and get it started as soon as possible this time.
- 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 don't know if I did or didn't - I just add it to the list, and leave it to run overnight. Here is what I'm currently seeding:
btcli list NAME NUM ST HAVE SIZE RATIO openSUSE-11.0-DVD-i386-iso 0 S. 100.0% 4.29G 34.81 openSUSE-11.0-DVD-x86_64-iso 2 S. 100.0% 4.33G 38.75 openSUSE-11.1-RC1-DVD-i586-iso 24 S. 100.0% 4.27G 14.55 openSUSE-11.1-RC1-DVD-ppc-iso 25 S. 100.0% 3.88G 1.13 openSUSE-11.1-RC1-DVD-x86_64-iso 26 S. 100.0% 4.35G 9.46
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.
I guess one option might be to distribute the torrent file via email. That way people who want to help getting the torrents going could get "in there" very quickly. /Per -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org