On 2009-4-7, at 17:55, Kevin Oberman wrote:
Use BitTorrent for all file distribution, it does all that. Yes, I'm
half serious.
Why only half? I have pulled FreeBSD ISOs via torrent and it was
stunning to see the performance.
Half, because getting a BitTorrent infrastructure in place for the
ports distfiles wold take a bit of effort.
Lars
The system I was loading it to had (at the time) only a fastE
(100Mbps),
but it loaded at a steady 90+ Mbps and spent a lot of time above
95M. Now that I am connected from that system at 1000M, I should see
how
it does.
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