Re: [Gnu-arch-users] New feature at the mirror + request for help

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Evan" == Evan Powers <address@hidden> writes:

    Evan> Now, obviously BitTorrent has its own scalability limits. If
    Evan> you are interested, I suggest you read

    Evan> http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/BitTorrentecon.pdf

Try http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/bittorrentecon.pdf.

    Evan> Another interesting exercise is to enter the queries
    Evan> [gnutella "can't scale"] and [bittorrent "can't scale"] into
    Evan> Google. The first produces about 500 results; the second
    Evan> produces 12, and all of those are because BitTorrent is
    Evan> linked on a page discussing how other things don't scale.

Well, I have a one-line proof that BitTorrent doesn't scale in the
application I'm interested in (object discovery): it doesn't do it at
all.  ;-)

Jokes aside, my immediate impression was related to what Andrew said
about Debian.  Ie, I can think of situations where it won't help, but
it sure does look like BitTorrent does what it's designed to do very
well, and won't hurt perceptibly in other cases.

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