Steve Sanbeg wrote: It's faster to get them from Wikipedia. The bittorrent downloads take about 1 1.2 weeks to download the archive. Using wikix directly only takes 1 1/2 days given the current size of the image set for commons. Getting them from Wikipedia is faster due to the squid caching both locally and internet wide. My analysis of the data sets from Wikipedia indicates that 60% of the images are cached either locally on squid or at other remote cache servers. Since they are cached in a distributed manner, the program will only access wikipedia intermittently. Copyvio is the bigger issue than performance. My image mirroring has had almost no noticable impact on Wikipedia with wikix. The program behaves like 16 workstations, so Wikipedia seems to be able to handle it with little additional overhead. Given the number of squid servers Brion has active, I think the impact is minimal in comparison to the massive amounts of access the site gets daily. Jeff

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:36:38AM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: If I've drawn all the proper inferences from that paragraph, you mean that you've only seen 9 clients hit *your* copies of the torrent files in question. You *do* know how BitTorrent works, right? :-)

Cheers, -- jra