On Wednesday 31 August 2005 00:52, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > Beta3 was already 32 GB. This already is far too much for the servers - > not regarding disk space, but buffer cache. > With thousands of concurrent users, it is impossible to serve all files > directly from the disks. The disk heads would more move than read data. > So the servers get lame if they can not hold most of the most requested > files in RAM during such "slashdotting" situations like we have each > thursday.
I thought the torrents would help alleviate this problem. With the torrents, only a fraction of all downloads would come directly from the source server, and most would get the data from other downloaders. Did I miss something? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
