On May 5, 2005 11:03 am, Ian Wormsbecker wrote: > > It'd be nice to be on a BT with 5000 seeds and 3 peers, but it's not > > realistic. Generally I allow my share ratio to get > 1 before I turn it > > off. > > > > Im a big fan of BT :) if used right, its awesome. > > I wonder about the scalability of BT from the tracker perspective. For > example, I play World of Warcraft (yaay for Wine), and Blizzard uses BT > for their patch system. I assume there are about a million people > downloading a patch at a given time, and I typically get about 2kb/s > whereas I get 200kb/s from many other torrent distributors. > > Can anyone speculate whether this is a BT protocol problem where it > can't deal with that many peers, or whether it is likely a tracker > problem? I have never heard of anyone using BT on that large of a scale > before (I think the most peers I have ever seen is around 800). >
I was going to comment perhaps the /. effect Ian B. was seeing is a result of the tracker getting a DDoS effect from too many peers. Azureus' new de-centralizing feature might help ith that. Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
