Re: download "accelerators"

["Ophidian" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

actually i like the segmented download feature, but only when used to pull
from multiple sources rather than the same source multiple instances


casey


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kara Pritchard" <kara@luci.org>
To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: download "accelerators"


> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Tony Zafiropoulos wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> > >
> > > Whoever you are...  Let me know when you have that crap shut off, and
> > > I'll allow you to access the server again.
> >
> > What exactly did this person do???
> >
> > Start several iso downloads?  Thus eating all of your bandwidth?
>
> Well, no. That's what that software is for.  When bandwidth is capped per
> connection.  Our cap isn't per connection, so 1 person or 4, bandwidth
> doesn't change.  What does change is all the extra processes hogging CPU
> and memory resources.  Regardless, whether it is to hog all the bandwidth
> or to unecessarily bog down the server, it's a crappy reason and such
> software should die.
>
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