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Date:      Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:14:27 +0300
From:      Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>, Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org>
Subject:   Re: more automated fetch of ISO-IMAGES & ports 
Message-ID:  <33AEED2F-800F-4DE2-AAA5-8A8E60736426@nokia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090407145512.1EC781CC50@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20090407145512.1EC781CC50@ptavv.es.net>

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On 2009-4-7, at 17:55, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Use BitTorrent for all file distribution, it does all that. Yes, I'm
>> half serious.
>
> Why only half? I have pulled FreeBSD ISOs via torrent and it was
> stunning to see the performance.

Half, because getting a BitTorrent infrastructure in place for the  
ports distfiles wold take a bit of effort.

Lars

>
> The system I was loading it to had (at the time) only a fastE  
> (100Mbps),
> but it loaded at a steady 90+ Mbps and spent a lot of time above
> 95M. Now that I am connected from that system at 1000M, I should see  
> how
> it does.
> -- 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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