Oh, well, if you're imaging a single system, then the bandwidth to that system would be the bottleneck, if you had multiple seeds available, then the workstation to be reimaged would have to split that bandwidth among all the seeds and would maybe even take a performance hit over using only one seed (since each connection has a certain amount of overhead) which would still saturate the bandwidth to that workstation by itself. BitTorrent was designed to optimize distribution from one giver to a large number of recipients, and has no benefit in a one receiver transfer AFAIK. The only way I could see this helping would be if each of the seeds had a 100Mbit connection to a switch that the recipient had a 1Gbit connection to. Your real-life tests may prove me wrong, though, and if they do we'll all learn something useful! Simón
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jason Knudsen Sent: Mon 11/6/2006 10:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Bittorrent deployment Hello, Right... But if the example were to be that we only were imaging a single system instead of 100 systems, then it might make sense to have some dedicated SEEDs available.. It's a rare day that we have to image 100 systems simultaneously, but it's an everyday chore to reimage a few systems here and there that have crashed or require upgrading. I'll do some deployments here with only one seed and with many seeds and I'll try to get us some numbers to put some accuracy to this theory ;-) 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
