first available close fedora mirror?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 03:13:49PM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Use their torrents, it's much easier on bandwidth for the project and is
>  faster than an overloaded mirror e.g. on the i686 live cd torrent there
> are 500 seeds and 800+ leeches, plenty fast enough.

Actually torrents is NOT easier on the bandwidth.

One of the admins of kernel.org proved that very well with stats from
the last fedora release where he tried to help with the torrent, and did
over 30% of the complete torrent seeding, and still served 10 times that
by http/ftp from kernel.org alone.  The torrents accounted for
practically nothing in total traffic, but required a dedicated server to
manage the cpu overhead it required.

If you have a mirror network (which fedora does) then torrents are an
awful thing to have.  If you don't have a mirror network, then torrents
are quite a helpful system.

So do the distribution a favour and DON'T use the torrents.

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Len Sorensen
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