On Saturday 30 October 2004 11:42, Mike Furr wrote: > Arnaud Kyheng wrote: > | Hello, > | > | I love the Debian project, and I have worked on a new development > | for it: Apt-Torrent :) > > Thank you for your contribution. However, I looked at doing > something similar to this a little while ago and found that > bittorrent is not very well suited for doing package downloads. Of > the ~15k binary packages in Debian about 87% are under 1 meg in > size and 98% are under 10 megs. The bit-torrent protocol works > best on files significantly larger than this. Also, the protocol > is not as efficient as it could be for the server hosting the > .torrent file, which means it scales quite poorly when there are > lots of requests for small files, as would be the case for Debian > packages.
Someone else has also looked into adding a p2p protocal to apt file fetching, haven't watched it closely, nor am I a developer for it. http://pdtp.org/static/ At one point I thought they even had an apt-pdtp in the works, but i can't find it now. Not trying to say apt-torrent isn't a worthwhile project, but as Mike noted, bittorrent really isn't a good protocal for the number of small files Debian has. It does work well though for CD images. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
