minthaka

I wonder what would be the maximum number of users, which would block all the mirror servers, if they downloaded the same stuff simultaneously?

Something similar is happening now with Mandriva. I think 100 Mbit/server is getting a bit to narrow.

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thesimplecreator

thats why they should setup some sort of bittorent mirror so that it cuts down on bandwidth, and just have the server be one of the computers seeding the torrent file....i dont know for sure though, i havn't used bittorent that much.

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D-cat

The maximum number of concurent users is limited by available processes and physical RAM.. the number can be thousands, but may be artificially limited to two or three digits in order to most efficiently use bandwidth and resources.

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daark.child

In addition to some of the things already mentioned here, many mirrors configure their http and ftp servers to only allow a certain number of simultaneous connections so that the servers are not overwhelmed by too many users.

thesimplecreator

wouldn't it be plausible to have a bittorent-like mirror set up to where you could even get updates with it?

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daark.child

Its possible but I've not seen Linux updates being distributed this way. Utorrent on Windows downloads updates via torrents.