Re: Tracker scrape extension proposal
"Roger Pate" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.bit-torrent.general |
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| Organization | Qxxy Studios |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:19:42 +0100, Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]> wrote: >> from the tracker, individual requests aren't particularaly efficient, >> but nor is fetching everything. I'd still rather fetch everything than >> hit the tracker with 100 HTTP requests, though. This is why I think it'd > > Why? > 100 single-torrent requests consume far less than 3 mb. Each HTTP request consumes server resources, even if the data transferred is small. One hundred requests is significant. How trackers support keep-alive? That would help, but not eliminate, this problem. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BitTorrent/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/