Le jeudi 13 janvier 2011 à 20:21 +0100, Marcello Anni a écrit : > > Le mercredi 12 janvier 2011 à 20:14 +0100, Marcello Anni a écrit : > > > > Thanks Olivier, for saying this much better than I could > > > > > > > > wobo, yet another mirror maintainer > > > > > > > yes wobo, but except Per Øyvind no one has really answered to my > question... > > > i think if that if we want Mageia to become the most popular distro over > the > > > world -yep!- we should find a way to augment the overall bandwith > > > available > for > > > updates download, and what's better than bittorrent protocol to use user > > > available bandwith to do this? i would like to know: > > > > I think that we should > > 1) diagnose exactly the problem you see > > 2) then decide on the solution. > > > > So what is the problem when you download updates ? > > i don't see any problem, if you read carefully the title is "proposal for > mageia", it is just a proposal to see if we can provide more capacity for > users downloads
Well, IMHO, if we do provides enough capacity ( and I think we do unless proven otherwise ), we may have better way to devote ressources, no ? If we don't provides enough, then we need to know why in order to fix the problem. Getting more for the sake of getting more do not seems like a useful way to spend our time. > and (in a long-term vision), increase our users base without > overloading the mirrors, using the uploading capacity of users internet > connections. Well, so far, the mirrors maintainers told that some of the proposed solution would overload them. And I do know that bittorrent was said to overload the routing infrastructure of the internet ( more connections to keep, more routing, etc ). Especially now that more and more networks are fragmented ( ie, no more big /24 routing, the lack of ipv4 requires to redistribute small part of the address space on various place ) So, maybe another proposal ? -- Michael Scherer
