On Thu, January 24, 2008 9:33 am, Russ Fineman wrote:
> Actually it did finally download the iso I was after, it took about
> 3.5 hours
> on a 100mb fiber link (4.2GB){SUSE 11.0 Alpha}That's not a bad result. > after that it went into > some > mode called seeding, Seeding is how torrents work. You download and you are "leaching". In other words, you have nothing to give back. Once you've downloaded enough chunchks of whatever, then you can both "seed" and "leach". Eventually you have all the chuncks downloaded and you are in "seeding" mode. In other words, you are giving chunks back out. The more seeders then better, therefore files get downloaded faster. I seed opensuse all night usually. YOu can typically configure KTorrent to only use x mb/s of your bandwith, so you're not stuck. I often set my downloads to only allow something really small - like 10 kb/s upload until I'm done then open up the port for full throttle afterwards. > after three hours I cancelled it. Today I will > try > burning a DVD with the ISO and see if it works. The DVD is only > available > through Ktorrent at this time. No HTTP or FTP version. That's how I've seen openSUSE spread the pain of bandwith. > > It looked like it is checking many servers but only getting chunks > from a few > of them. > > That's a result of the trackers or clients. Even though KTorrent is "trackerless" it must still check for clients from which to pull chunks. Every peer out there becomes a tracker, which allows KTorrent to see who is seeding the file. It will check multiple trackers, grab chunks from some as it can and ignore others. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
