Re: Tracker scrape extension proposal

"Roger Pate" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.bit-torrent.general
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/
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.