My pet monkey insists that on Sep 23 2003 at 02:48PM
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> warbled:

> Similarly, I get about 600Kb. But the point is scalability; what happens when 
> there's 10 times as many users as there are now? Any system administrator 
> will tell you that the issue of scalability is best handled proactively.

Absoloutely, but I don't agree that bittorrent is the way to go.

But - it should be an option for those who do want to use it, and are willing
to open the required ports on firewalls, etc. However, I suspect that you'll
see users running it long enough to download whichever files they are
interested in & then stopping it. Until there is a way around this I don't see
it as an answer.

I'd actually like to see public web-cache like machines that interface
directly with the gentoo mirrors & hold the most requested files. I don't see
that as a longterm solution though.
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