On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 05:33:15PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Montag, 22. November 2004 17:40 schrieb David Fetter: > > A much slimmed-down bt.postgresql.org is now serving it. :) > > Out of curiosity, what purpose does a bittorrent source serve in > this case?
BitTorrent was designed to take bandwidth load off servers that would otherwise need to be on very large and expensive pipes. It does this by serving mostly information about where other servers are, rather than serving the same (much larger) chunks of data over and over again to clients. You can find more information on what BitTorrent does and how it does it at http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html HTH :) Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
