RE: Re: Tracker scrape extension proposal

 
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BitTorrent doesn't have a default announce cycle of 5 minutes. It has
a default announce cycle of 30.

Clients SHOULDN'T report keep-alive capability for announces anyway,
since the connections are typically so short and so far spaced. This
would permit a webserver to run BitTorrent trackers without
Keep-alives.

- -----Original Message-----
From: dropnessence [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 12:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [BitTorrent] Re: Tracker scrape extension proposal




Keep-alive is a bad system to use with a bittorrent tracker. By
default clients are set to only hit the server every 5 mins. If you
keep a thread/socket alive for 5 minutes just for that client, and
you
have a swarm of clients then you will be keeping thousands of
threads/sockets open for keep-alive. Keep-alive is useful for webpage
where somebody is clicking on something every 3-60 seconds. BT
happens
every 300 seconds. If the BT tracker (announce) is implemented by a
web-server (eg, PHP), then keep-alive should be disabled.

- --- In [email protected], "Roger Pate" <roger@q...> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:19:42 +0100, Olaf van der Spek
> <OvdSpek@L...> 
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.





 
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