On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 01:29 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 19:16 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > A search for a 200MB file tells you it's available on 2000 hosts, all of > > whom are on dialup. > > What about the real world ? >
OK that was a poorly contrived example. Anyway the specific numbers don't matter as much; it's actually quite a common scenario to run out of FDs before you can fill the pipe. It happens to me about once a week. Modern P2P protocols all seem to use some type of "swarming". IIRC the inspiration was the DDOS attacks of the late 90s - thousands of hosts on slow connections can fill even the fattest pipe. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
