young Fedora torrents spread data too slowly

[Mike McGrath]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Till Maas wrote:

> On Sat October 11 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't say overloaded.  Throttled is the right word, and we do have it
> > throttled.  Although even throttled on one machine I was able to download
> > the latest live beta in roughly 10 minutes on my slicehost.com host, and
> > closer to 9 hours on my workstation at home.  Its always difficult to tell
> > where the slowness happens but I suspect in my slow case it was because my
> > ISP was limiting my traffic and slicehost.com was not.
>
> For me surely torrent1.fedoraproject.org is the bottleneck, because it only
> seeds at around 0.2 KB/s and is the only seed at all. Something is strange,
> because given the time the torrent is already online, there should be several
> other seeds, but nearly all peers have the same percentage of the files, so
> they redistribute whatever they got, but nobody gets the missing chunks
> reasonable fast to redistribute them.
>

Thus the theory of torrent.  Things that are popular will download
quickly, things that aren't won't.  Seems to match well with community if
you ask me.

I just downloaded:

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//F10-Snap1-x86_64-Live.torrent

It took just over 6 minutes and my top speed was 2037.3 KB/s  I might
suggest that different places have different rules wrt torrent and qos,
firewalls and other setups can affect torrent preformance.

	-Mike