Re: download "accelerators"

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:26:56AM -0500, Ophidian wrote:
> normally they start downloading the same file multiple times in different
> locations in the file, this overcomes any cap that is set on a per login
> basis
> 
> however i dont think that he does any capping so this does little good and
> is utterly pointless

Right.  Either way it is just rude.  If a site has bandwidth caps, it
is to be as fair as possible to everyone.

As it is, all it does here is suck memory and CPU, plus cause
unnecessary disk seeks.  Oh, and annoy me to no end.

> steve --> im pulling at a happy little 26KB last i looked, set max to 100KB
> for this box.  if you want me to scale it back let me know, but it looks
> like im nowhere near my own cap thusfar

Don't worry about how much you pull from here.  I set the firewall to
limit throughput just a little so that all the other services (mail,
other web sites, etc.) don't have to compete for bandwidth quite so
much.  So take what you can get of what's left...

It looks like there are currently 7 ISO downloads going...  If it goes
much higher, I'll probably look at limiting the number of simultaneous
downloads so that everyone can finish sometime this week.

Steve
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