Hi,
We've tried a bittorrent here at Fermilab before, and we always tend to 
get blocked by our border router.  It's been a while though, and we 
could try again if there is a big demand.
For right now, linuxtracker usually has a torrent

http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrents&category=296

Let me know how big the demand is, and if it's big enough, we'll work on 
getting one setup for the SL 4.8 release.

Troy

sadov wrote:
> 21/03/2009 в 13:05 +0300, sadov:
>> Troy, Connie our personal congratulations with 5.3 release and to all
>> FermiLab with a Y(4140) particle discovery!
>>
>> Colleagues, what do you think about delivering ISO-images (especially
>> DVD-images) by the P2P network (bitbake, for example)?
> 
> Sorry, my mind is not completely cleared from a hard struggle with a
> OpenMoko building environment -- bittorent of course ;)
> 
>>  It's may be a
>> very useful solution for avoiding single server bottleneck.
>>
>> --Oleg
>>
>> 20/03/2009 16:14 -0500, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> We released SL 5.3 yesterday, and now ftp.scientificlinux.org is running 
>>> a little slow.  So it is possible that some people are going to get 
>>> time-out's when they do yum updates.
>>> I apologize, but at the moment, there isn't alot I can do but wait for 
>>> the wave to pass over.
>>>
>>> If you are wondering about the load on the machine (this is a dual 
>>> opteron machine, just one core per processor)
>>>
>>> ftp.scientificlinux.org
>>> Load: 1550 (fluxuating between 1500 and 1600)
>>> http connections: 258
>>> ftp connections: 3166
>>> rsync connections: 15
>>>
>>> The one thing that has me concerned is the rsync connections.  People 
>>> really should change their scripts to move to rsync.scientificlinux.org 
>>> instead of ftp.scientificlinux.org.
>>> rsync.scientificlinux.org has an IP address of 131.225.110.33
>>> It only has 14 current rsync connections, and from the network graphs, 
>>> it is getting alot more throughput simply because it isn't bogged down.
>>>
>>> rsync.scientificlinux.org
>>> Load: 2
>>> rsync connections: 14
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Troy


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