young Fedora torrents spread data too slowly

[Chuck Anderson]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:49:57PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, John Reiser wrote:
> 
> > Young torrents on http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ spread data too slowly.
> > At 0500 UTC on Sat.Oct.11, there was 1 seed and 14 leeches, all at 13% done.
> > At 1300 UTC on Sat.Oct.11, there was 1 seed and 31 leeches, all at 55% done.
> > This is for F10-Snap1-x86_64-Live.
> > I turned my machine off for the night (US PDT), powered on in the morning,
> > and within half an hour had caught up to all leeches at 57% done.
> > I use tranmsissionbt, and I saw that the seed was sending pieces of 256 KiB
> > to me at 2.5 KiB/s, taking almost two minutes per piece (and then "pausing.")
> >
> > It seems to me that torrent.fedoraproject.org is overloaded, and that a change
> > in policy would give sooner completion to everybody, even without more
> > resources.
> 
> I wouldn't say overloaded.  Throttled is the right word, and we do have it
> throttled.  Although even throttled on one machine I was able to download
> the latest live beta in roughly 10 minutes on my slicehost.com host, and
> closer to 9 hours on my workstation at home.  Its always difficult to tell
> where the slowness happens but I suspect in my slow case it was because my
> ISP was limiting my traffic and slicehost.com was not.

I'm on multiple gig links, unrestricted, and it is taking an eternity 
to download the Snap1 images.