UBfusion
January 19th, 2007, 05:17 PM
I think that getting more iso testers depends also on the speed of the iso downloads.
Bittorrent is indeed implemented, but it seems that only 1-2 persons use it (it's rare that I see a second peer when downloading). The torrent usually needs half an hour or more to start from magellanic (is this a bug?) but when it does, speeds are 300-500 kBps - excellent. Http downloads are capped to ~30 kBps max so they are my last resort and take 7-8 hours
Jidgo is a great concept, allowing to download only changes relative to another (already downloaded) iso. The reasons I haven't tried it yet are:
1. I don't know if it is clever enough to realise that I want to update a daily build of e.g. 3 or 7 days ago, which has the same filename as the iso to be updated?
2. I cannot find examples for using to update e.g. 20071118 to 20071119 or Herd2 to 20071119 ?
3. Jidgo is not implemented for the desktop builds.
Ubuntu Herd distros have some mirrors, but there is only one place for the daily builds. Is there room for improvement?
Bittorrent is indeed implemented, but it seems that only 1-2 persons use it (it's rare that I see a second peer when downloading). The torrent usually needs half an hour or more to start from magellanic (is this a bug?) but when it does, speeds are 300-500 kBps - excellent. Http downloads are capped to ~30 kBps max so they are my last resort and take 7-8 hours
Jidgo is a great concept, allowing to download only changes relative to another (already downloaded) iso. The reasons I haven't tried it yet are:
1. I don't know if it is clever enough to realise that I want to update a daily build of e.g. 3 or 7 days ago, which has the same filename as the iso to be updated?
2. I cannot find examples for using to update e.g. 20071118 to 20071119 or Herd2 to 20071119 ?
3. Jidgo is not implemented for the desktop builds.
Ubuntu Herd distros have some mirrors, but there is only one place for the daily builds. Is there room for improvement?