[cc-community] Fwd: [p2p-hackers] large swarms

mp m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk
Mon May 11 16:32:52 EDT 2009



Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> Anyone know of legal (eg media under a CC license or free software)
> torrents with hundreds of simultaneous users?


GNU/Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu:
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/9.04/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
- usually do


> 
> Apparently the ones hosted by legaltorrents.org aren't active enough
> for the research below.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Peng Wang <pengvvang at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:49
> Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] large swarms
> To: David Andersen <dga at cs.cmu.edu>
> Cc: bittorrent at lists.ibiblio.org, theory and practice of decentralized
> computer networks <p2p-hackers at lists.zooko.com>
> 
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply! I tried several torrents from
> www.legaltorrents.com before. Those torrents I tried were small. They
> are good for testing the speed etc. But I cannot test the benefit of
> PEX and distributed tracker with small swarms. Have you seen any swarm
> there which have hundreds of nodes?
> 
> Thanks,
> Peng
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:37 PM, David Andersen <dga at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> We used a bunch of files from http://www.legaltorrents.com/
>> when we needed test transfers.
>>
>> �-Dave
>>
>> On May 11, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Peng Wang wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> (Sorry if you receive the message twice.)
>>>
>>> I am doing some testing of the effectiveness of PEX and distributed tracker. For that I need several large and LEGAL swarms. Anybody knows where I can find those swarms besides Linux distros?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Peng
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