[BitTorrent] Questions from content distributor POV
Olaf van der Spek
OvdSpek at LIACS.NL
Wed Oct 20 08:35:32 EDT 2004
John Reuning wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
>
>>Why not just run a BT client on the server instead of webseeding?
>
>
> Does anyone know how many torrents a single client can handle? I'd like
> this to scale up to 10's of thousands of torrents.
You'd need a special client for that, one that can open/load torrents
on-demand.
How many concurrent connections should that client be able to handle?"
>
>>What's your definition of enormous swarms?
>
>
> It'd be nice to allow everyone in the world downloading a newly released
> Linux distro version to be on the same swarm. Say, 100,000+? Not that
> the clients could handle that many peers at once.
There are single trackers that can handle 225000 peers (given enough
bandwidth), so you don't need a tracker network for that.
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