young Fedora torrents spread data too slowly

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 22:49 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Till Maas wrote:
> 
> > On Sat October 11 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >
> > > I'm testing from another host in the EU right now and I'm getting
> > > somewhere around 3090.3 KB/s.  I'm all for quicker torrent downloads so if
> > > y'all want to stop by #fedora-admin and chat it up perhaps we can come up
> > > with a fix or better guidelines on how to use torrent or something.
> >
> > We need more seeds at the beginning and more people with access to the isos.
> > Dennis Gilmore finally managed to acquire the isos somehow and seeded them
> > and this made it possible for everybody else to download them, too.
> >
> 
> I'll have a talk with Jesse.  For the normal releases we typically have
> multiple seeders from the start.  For these sorts of snapshots I suspect
> some steps can be taken to ensure better usability here.  I talked with
> Seth a bit about this too (he's our current torrent wrangler) and we
> generally think this was just an issue with two many chunks and not enough
> people for chunks from the beginning.  Which is self correcting but A)
> is annoying and B) is preventable in the future.  We just have to figure
> out the procedure on it.
> 

If we have a spare site with lots of bandwidth to spare and works with
torrents we can set it up to be a second seed for whatever. 

automating it will be an ugh but not undoable.

-sv