Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-19 Thread Les Bell
"William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sorry to hear that your getting so little support from the community. << Oh, I'm not complaining on that score; in fact, I'm not complaining at all. I just fired up BitTorrent to help out, and I figured I could use a 5.1 DVD anyway. Right now, my

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 07:50 +1100, Les Bell wrote: > "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > At 07:40 EST (+5 UTC?) with most of the U.S still asleep, I've 8 and 6 > peers connected and uploading for the 4.6 and 5.1 DVDs respectively. > << > > As I write, I've had the torrent runn

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-19 Thread Les Bell
"William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 07:40 EST (+5 UTC?) with most of the U.S still asleep, I've 8 and 6 peers connected and uploading for the 4.6 and 5.1 DVDs respectively. << As I write, I've had the torrent running for approximately 12 hours; I have 50 peers connected and am g

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Rcpt-To: Kenneth Porter wrote on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:01:31 -0800: > speedup is 2.14 Ah, and I was wondering all the time what that means. Seems to be the reciprocal downloaded:keptfromseed ratio? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Ser

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:05 +, John Bowden wrote: > On Monday 17 December 2007 23:24:01 Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > --On Monday, December 17, 2007 5:10 PM -0500 "William L. Maltby" > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > We only have the latest (5.1, 4.6) iso

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-19 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 17 December 2007 23:24:01 Johnny Hughes wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote: > > --On Monday, December 17, 2007 5:10 PM -0500 "William L. Maltby" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, there's so few going right now that I'm showing 38 days to get the > >> DVD. My normal dnld from a mirr

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-19 Thread John Bowden
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:05:52 Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 5:16 PM, Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --On Monday, December 17, 2007 4:58 PM -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. > > > > Sounds like something is

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On 12/18/07, Von <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brilliant. Thanks for the tip! Thank Andrew Tridgell. He's the brilliant one that wrote rsync and Samba. :) -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/ C++ GUI tut

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:29 PM -0800 Robert Arkiletian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: rsync -Pv rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/isos/i386/CentOS-5.1-i386-bin-DVD.i so . You should get upto 50% savings. At least I did with the CD iso's in the past. The capital P is --partial --progre

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread Von
On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: On 12/17/07, Von <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of bandwi

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On 12/17/07, Von <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > > > > Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your > > 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of > > bandwidth. > > > I could be tired, but could you

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:30 AM + Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: we've just had a long conversation on the list about exactly what a centos minor release means, so keeping that in context - why exactly would someone want to download 5.0 when 5.0 +

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 07:02 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, William L. Maltby wrote: > > [...] > > > Both my systems are already up-to-date. I'm just getting the images for > > backup, new installs and to share via torrent. > > > > I saw one poster mention rsync. I would expec

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread Benjamin Franz
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, William L. Maltby wrote: [...] Both my systems are already up-to-date. I'm just getting the images for backup, new installs and to share via torrent. I saw one poster mention rsync. I would expect the rebuilds had lots of underlying lib changes along with some higher-level

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 20:24 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. When I did 5.0 and 4.5, I got great results, but I saw lots of peers then. This time I've seen many fewer and that is causing the abysmal results I saw. >

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Von
On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of bandwidth. I could be tired, but could you please elaborate how this is possible? A dvd iso with X numb

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Monday, December 17, 2007 7:05 PM -0800 Robert Arkiletian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of bandwidth. That surprises me. Won't similar RPM's in the two images likel

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread John R Pierce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. the port your client is using for torrent should be enabled in any firewalls (and if you're being NAT, it should be forwarded). If i'm in a corporate environment where this is impossible, I'll use a shell s

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Dec 17, 2007 5:16 PM, Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Monday, December 17, 2007 4:58 PM -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. > > Sounds like something is throttling your torrent connection. Start by using > a non-standard to

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, December 17, 2007 4:58 PM -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. Sounds like something is throttling your torrent connection. Start by using a non-standard torrent port to escape traffic shaping by naive throttles. With places suc

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:30 AM + Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: we've just had a long conversation on the list about exactly what a centos minor release means, so keeping that in context - why exactly would someone want to download 5.0 when 5.0 + updates is 5.1 ? In m

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread centos
Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. With places such as utah.edu [I am in North America] I got 320Kb/sec steady. It took me 3hr and a bit to download the 5.1 dvd. As far as I understand it, Utah and the other mirrors donated the bandwidth to the community. -- Thanks http://w

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Clint Dilks
Karanbir Singh wrote: Kenneth Porter wrote: We only have the latest (5.1, 4.6) isos on the tracker now. Does it place much load on the tracker to leave the older torrents listed? we've just had a long conversation on the list about exactly what a centos minor release means, so

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Kenneth Porter wrote: >> We only have the latest (5.1, 4.6) isos on the tracker now. > > Does it place much load on the tracker to leave the older torrents listed? we've just had a long conversation on the list about exactly what a centos minor release means, so keeping that in context - why exac

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, December 17, 2007 5:24 PM -0600 Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We only have the latest (5.1, 4.6) isos on the tracker now. Does it place much load on the tracker to leave the older torrents listed? The connection error I'm seeing seems to be some kind of firewall block

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:24 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote: > > --On Monday, December 17, 2007 5:10 PM -0500 "William L. Maltby" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Well, there's so few going right now that I'm showing 38 days to get the > >> DVD. My normal dnld from a mirr

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Johnny Hughes
Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Monday, December 17, 2007 5:10 PM -0500 "William L. Maltby" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, there's so few going right now that I'm showing 38 days to get the >> DVD. My normal dnld from a mirror travels appx. 600Mb/sec. >> >> I'll wait until most of the U.S. g

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, December 17, 2007 5:10 PM -0500 "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, there's so few going right now that I'm showing 38 days to get the DVD. My normal dnld from a mirror travels appx. 600Mb/sec. I'll wait until most of the U.S. goes home before I give up and use th

[CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-17 Thread William L. Maltby
Well, there's so few going right now that I'm showing 38 days to get the DVD. My normal dnld from a mirror travels appx. 600Mb/sec. I'll wait until most of the U.S. goes home before I give up and use the normal download though. Here's hoping... -- Bill _