young Fedora torrents spread data too slowly

[Mike McGrath]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Till Maas wrote:

> On Sat October 11 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:
>
> > I'm testing from another host in the EU right now and I'm getting
> > somewhere around 3090.3 KB/s.  I'm all for quicker torrent downloads so if
> > y'all want to stop by #fedora-admin and chat it up perhaps we can come up
> > with a fix or better guidelines on how to use torrent or something.
>
> We need more seeds at the beginning and more people with access to the isos.
> Dennis Gilmore finally managed to acquire the isos somehow and seeded them
> and this made it possible for everybody else to download them, too.
>

I'll have a talk with Jesse.  For the normal releases we typically have
multiple seeders from the start.  For these sorts of snapshots I suspect
some steps can be taken to ensure better usability here.  I talked with
Seth a bit about this too (he's our current torrent wrangler) and we
generally think this was just an issue with two many chunks and not enough
people for chunks from the beginning.  Which is self correcting but A)
is annoying and B) is preventable in the future.  We just have to figure
out the procedure on it.

Feel free to stop by #fedora-admin with ideas.  It might just be something
as simple as providing the iso somewhere for a specified time then
removing, allowing people to seed properly.  I like this because it keeps
with the community model, allows people to get involved for these sorts of
releases, and fixes the "slow to start" problem.

	-Mike