And her answer was that she started with one seed, as all torrents do. One. As every machine receives the first piece of the torrent, as soon as it is able, it begins uploading that piece to others. So one seed turns into a huge amount of active uploaders as quickly as the seed can send out different pieces of the torrent to different clients. There's a good explanation (and AMAZINGLY clear animated GIF) explaining the process at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent, if you're interested. HTH Simón
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jason Knudsen Sent: Mon 11/6/2006 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Bittorrent deployment Morning Andrea, Sorry for the misunderstanding - what I meant to ask for was how many SEEDS were active when you achieved those startling results? (ie: In terms of performance I was able to install all the 100 nodes (with a RHEL4 of 2GB) in 4min!!!) The more seeds = the greater the speed of distribution right... But at some point the limit becomes the hard disk speed. I was just curious to know how many seeds you had to obtain said result? Thanks Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
