Re: Surge on demand for some Debian 'netinst' ISOs on BitTorrent

On Fri, 21 Jun 2024, Felipe Maia wrote:

> Dear Image/CD Team
>
> I've been serving, through BitTorrent, all the 52 images (ISOs) of 
> Debian 12.5 since one or two weeks after the release.

Hi!

> I've noticed a surge on demand for 4 'netinst' images on the last 
> approximately 7 days. The images are (in the presented order):
>
> - debian-12.5.0-arm64-netinst.iso
> - debian-mac-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso
> - debian-edu-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso
> - debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>
> These images were around the 10th to the 15th positions in demand. All 
> the sudden, I've been having a very high demand for them, much more than 
> I've seen for all these months. It's an increase of something like 10 
> fold. In these few days, they jumped to the first 4 positions in the 
> ranking and are far beyond the former first place, which was 
> 'debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso' as expected. The ranking order was quite 
> stable for all these months until now.

Interesting find!

Unfortunately the main seeder doesn't keep track of historical data very 
much, just a bunch of rtorrent processes in screens. Overall traffic is 
also tiny, at around 15 Mbit/s average outgoing traffic.

> I wonder if someone knows what's happening, if other people serving the 
> images with BitTorrent are having the same experience, and if this 
> phenomena is also happening with the images downloaded from the Debian 
> Image Servers.

On https downloads from cdimage.debian.org I don't see any big change. The 
mac netinst has a doubling in demand in the last 7 days compared to the 
whole month, but that's not a huge surge and it isn't reflected in any of 
the other netinst images.

/Mattias Wadenstein