Hi Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Is there a reason bittorrent isn't suited to this application? > Our investigations so far showed that bittorrent is only good if the files to be transferred fit well into main memory. If you exceed about 90-95% of the RAM your disks will be accessed a lot and the performance breaks down a lot (we have seen close to wirespeed in the beginning and in the end we were crawling with mere few 10 kByte/s). Cheers Carsten -- Dr. Carsten Aulbert - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Callinstrasse 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Phone/Fax: +49 511 762-17185 / -17193 http://www.top500.org/system/9234 | http://www.top500.org/connfam/6/list/31
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