Hello there, Jason, You're correct in theory that if you had more than one seed to start off, and had them strategically set up on different physical spots in the network the process might go a little faster at the beginning, however the benefit to cost ratio of setting up more than 1 seed is less than one when you consider the work you have to do to set up those other seeds. The critical issue--as I see it--as far as how long it takes to transfer the image is the bandwidth of the network, and one seed will utilize 100% of the bandwidth of the network just as quickly as two seeds. If instead of investing effort in creating more than one seed before you start the torrent you simply start the torrent, you'll save yourself a lot of effort that wouldn't significantly improve the performance AFAIK. I'm open to correction, though, this is simply explaining the mental model that's in my head. HTH, Simón
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jason Knudsen Sent: Mon 11/6/2006 9:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Bittorrent deployment Ah, okay... I was under the impression that someone would setup several dedicated "permanent" SEEDs rather than just the systemimager server itself. If my understanding of BitTorrent is correct, than this would kickstart the whole imaging process a lot faster than if you were to start with only 1 seed. 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
