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Dropping 22TB of patches on 6,500 PCs in 4 hours: BitTorrent

• tlrobinson 19y ago
  This could have been a very interesting case study on the BitTorrent protocol. I wonder if they recorded much data.
  • spydez 19y ago
    I especially wonder how much the network was saturated during the 2 hours it took to transfer that 3.5GB patch to all the clients. BitTorrent will use every last iota of bandwidth and clog every router with tons of connections if you let it.
    • Xichekolas 19y ago
      Surely they could use some kind of QoS to make torrent traffic the lowest priority. Since they control the clients too (and don't have to worry about hostile clients trying to subvert your traffic shaping schemes) they can also set connection limits to keep each client from opening excessive numbers of connections. In short, it's not like dealing with bittorrent in the wild, where every client is trying to leech at max speed with no regard for the rest of the network. They control both ends of the process, so they can tune it.