Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've left all three of mine running unthrottled for a full day, and
> intend to leave them up until the uploads stop.

There is a nice utility in contrib pointed by Warly, reporting
current uploads/downloads status for a certain torrent. I
wouldn't have guessed that there were actually more uploads than
downloads! as you can see here:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp] torrentsniff -t 
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD{1,2,3}.i586.iso.torrent
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso.torrent
   full copies:    97 seeds
   partial copies: 64 leeches

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD2.i586.iso.torrent
   full copies:    86 seeds
   partial copies: 51 leeches

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD3.i586.iso.torrent
   full copies:    74 seeds
   partial copies: 60 leeches


An impressive proof that sharing does work and people tend to
give back.

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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