* Marc G. Fournier (scrappy@postgresql.org) wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >The download servers have enough bandwidth to serve any client faster than
> >the client can take. The traffic on the download servers is not reduced,
> >only distributed differently. I don't see any advantage.
>
> Actually, and here is where I exhibit my total lack of knowledge of BT
> internals ... my understanding was that each 'client' becomes a 'server'
> by the fact that they have it on their machine and running ... so, over
> time, the amount of load on the central server would decrease, since new
> downloads would come from closer "client machines" ... essentially, a
> whole new set of "unofficial mirror sites" for the source code ...
>
> Is this a wrong understanding?
Nope, that's about right, from what I understand. Not only that, but
for far-flung people (from the server) it's possible that there are
links between the server and the client that are too slow, bt could
reduce the bandwidth demands on those links too if other people on the
far side are also grabbing the stream.
Stephen