Thread: Re: Bittorrent (Was: RE: [HACKERS] [SUGGESTION] CVSync )
[moved to -www] > Does anyone here know how to use the latest version of > Bittorrent, from a server vs client, perspective? The one we > are currently running is *ancient*, and I'd like to get that > vServer upgraded and off the templates, but without someone > that knows how to setup the newer bittorrent, well, that's > just a scary proposition ;( Ancient is a bit strong - it's about a year old. By that definition, there's a whole lot of things that are a lot worse off on our servers. That said, it's not good. But the fact that something changed on the box that caused it to stop working in the past couple of days can't be because of the version, since we've been running that version for a year. Moving on, some figures: In the active log now, we have about 4 million FTP downloads and 190,000 bittorrent downloads. Meaning bittorrent is only ~ 5% of our downloads. OTOH 190,000 downloads since Jan 11th, 2005 is still more than 400 downloads per day... But the bottom line of that reasoning is, how much time do we want to spend hacking around the bittorrent stuff? We're better off now than before we had an automated system, but is it really something the end user wants. (For example, we don't know how many of those hits are hits by search engines and mirroring scripts - that could easily be a couple of hundreds aday..) As for migrating it to a differnt vserver - just make sure you have a "close enough" version of python, and it should be no problem to just tar up the whole directory and move it over. I wouldn't be particularly worried about that part. //Magnus
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Magnus Hagander wrote: > [moved to -www] > >> Does anyone here know how to use the latest version of >> Bittorrent, from a server vs client, perspective? The one we >> are currently running is *ancient*, and I'd like to get that >> vServer upgraded and off the templates, but without someone >> that knows how to setup the newer bittorrent, well, that's >> just a scary proposition ;( > > Ancient is a bit strong - it's about a year old. By that definition, > there's a whole lot of things that are a lot worse off on our servers. > > That said, it's not good. But the fact that something changed on the box > that caused it to stop working in the past couple of days can't be > because of the version, since we've been running that version for a > year. 'k, I looked at the server based on your report, and everything looks fine ... so, can you let me know how to reproduce the problem you are seeing? > As for migrating it to a differnt vserver - just make sure you have a > "close enough" version of python, and it should be no problem to just > tar up the whole directory and move it over. I wouldn't be particularly > worried about that part. tar up what directory? its the bittorrent binaries that I'm concerned about ... at some point, they merged all the various "utilities" into one 'bittorrent' script ... there is no longer a 'btlaunchmany.py' script, for instance ... And not sure what you are talking about concerning 'a year', but bittorrent was originally installed back in Nov of '03, according to the file stamps: # ls -lt bt* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5833 Nov 24 2003 btmakemetafile.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6385 Nov 15 2003 btdownloadheadless.pyc ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> Moving on, some figures: In the active log now, we have about 4 million
> FTP downloads and 190,000 bittorrent downloads.
*Wow*, that seems like a lotta downloads ... what interval is this
measured over?
regards, tom lane