Re: Bittorrent. Where's the torrent?

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John Velman wrote:
| I want to get KDE 4 native for OX X (leaopard, imac).  Have never used
| bitttorrent before, but since this seems to be the only way to get kde 4
| for mac, I decided to try.
|
| I installed Tomato as the bittorrent client.
|
| So far, I've been downloading for a total of about 16 hours spread
over two
| days (I don't leave the mac on at night, but Tomato seemed to start where
| it left off yesterday.)
|
| So far, I've gotten 34.5 % of the 2.45 GB.  At the moment it says 22 hours
| 33 minuts to go.
|
| The download rate hovers around zero a lot, is currently 9.8K/s, Once
I saw
| it go up to 40 K/s.   At the moment there are 2 peers, 17 seeds.  I've
seen
| as many as 20 seeds.  The maximum upload rate, which is adjustable, is set
| at 20K/s.

I personally have 2 servers serving it up at 100k/s a piece, and
according to the tracker, it's got 64 full seeds and 48 downloads; it
may just be that you're in a place where the tracker doesn't spread it
out well.

| Still, bittorrent seems a miserable way to get the mac version of KDE out.

It is, but my own personal server couldn't have handled serving a 2 gig
file to the 1700 people who have so far downloaded it.  :)

On the other hand, the goal is to put stuff up on ftp.kde.org for the
next snapshot, now that I have access to it (and now that we have a
place to put it).

We also have someone who's volunteered to make an installer like the
Windows one, which will understand mirrors and be able to pull things
down in pieces.


- --
Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick
Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development
http://www.racoonfink.com/

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