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eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 1,029

torrent seeding..how useful is it?

i know im not much of a giver when it comes to arch linux, especially since im no good at packaging, programming or..well...anything in a profesional manner.

so a few monthes ago, i decided to seed some of the boot images for the installer. but im capped awfully at 32kps upload.

rtorrent has specific instructions to cap its seeding to 10kps during the day, and uncapped during the night.

my question is: how useful is this? is it worth the trouble? during the last 9 days the server's been up, it only seeded about 250mb which is not much. should i give up? or every bit counts?

do other archers seed the install discs? what are their stats?

input is very much appreciated.

Nuz

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 50

Re: torrent seeding..how useful is it?

I rarely, like once a week, run rtorrent. Although I'm not concerned about my bandwidth (10 mbps), so far, in a month, I have seeded only about 700mb.
I think every bit counts, since the torrent is pretty active, even with 1kb/s speed. Certainly it matters to someone.

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Barrucadu

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From: York, England

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 1,158

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Re: torrent seeding..how useful is it?

My bandwidth is unmetered between midnight and 8AM, so I have cron run rtorrent between those hours. I seed the Arch torrents; not much activity, but every contribution helps.

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Ultraman

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Registered: 2009-12-24

Posts: 242

Re: torrent seeding..how useful is it?

I've had a ratio of 52 on the Arch i686 ISO and also a fairly high number on the x86_64 one.
I'm not seeding it at the moment, because I only have a 100kb/s upstream which I cap to 50 during the day and 80 at night. I needed the bandwidth for something...
Anyway, seeding when you can is nice. But there are already fine seeders out there