Why is Mozilla being available in BitTorrent?

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Why is Mozilla being available in BitTorrent?

Postby Wellander » Fri 18 Jun, 2004 2:31 pm

Hi,
Why is Mozilla being available in BitTorrent?
I am just wondering.
I thought that BitTorrent was used for very large downloads like linux .iso files.

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Postby Don_HH2K » Fri 18 Jun, 2004 4:44 pm

BitTorrent can be used for anything, although it is particularly useful for Linux ISOs.
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Postby Mandrake » Fri 18 Jun, 2004 6:40 pm

To ease the strain on the Mozilla FTP servers.
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Postby Wellander » Fri 18 Jun, 2004 6:42 pm

Hi,
What strain?
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Postby Don_HH2K » Fri 18 Jun, 2004 6:54 pm

Wellander wrote:Hi,
What strain?


Hyped Mozilla releases such as 1.0, 1.4, 1.7, 2.0, etc... could let the servers fill up fast. I can only imagine what happens when Firefox goes gold.
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Postby Mandrake » Fri 18 Jun, 2004 7:01 pm

It's well known that Mozilla's servers aren't exactly the fastest around, and with FireFox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.7 and Mozilla 1.7 all released within a few days of each other, there is going to be a lot of strain on their servers.
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Postby Don_HH2K » Wed 23 Jun, 2004 10:09 pm

Mandrake wrote:It's well known that Mozilla's servers aren't exactly the fastest around, and with FireFox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.7 and Mozilla 1.7 all released within a few days of each other, there is going to be a lot of strain on their servers.


I never noticed a large performance lag in the Mozilla servers. Are you sure you didn't mean the Mozdev.org servers? Those are the slowest things I've seen.
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Postby Wellander » Wed 23 Jun, 2004 10:15 pm

dluchini30 wrote:
Mandrake wrote:It's well known that Mozilla's servers aren't exactly the fastest around, and with FireFox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.7 and Mozilla 1.7 all released within a few days of each other, there is going to be a lot of strain on their servers.


I never noticed a large performance lag in the Mozilla servers. Are you sure you didn't mean the Mozdev.org servers? Those are the slowest things I've seen.


Hi,
Mozdex servers being slow?
Try radio-info.com the boards are very slow sometimes it takes over 25 minutes to load pages in heavy site usage times.
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Postby Wellander » Wed 23 Jun, 2004 10:15 pm

dluchini30 wrote:
Wellander wrote:Hi,
What strain?


Hyped Mozilla releases such as 1.0, 1.4, 1.7, 2.0, etc... could let the servers fill up fast. I can only imagine what happens when Firefox goes gold.

Hi,
Or camino of thunderbird.
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Postby Don_HH2K » Wed 23 Jun, 2004 10:18 pm

And, if you think about it, when most of the Mozilla projects such as CCK gt finished, that will be even worse. I wouldn't be surprised if I see the Mozilla FTP server split into two different servers with one for programs such as Appsuite, Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, etc... and another for CCK, SpiderMonkey, Calendar, etc...
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Postby Wellander » Wed 23 Jun, 2004 10:26 pm

dluchini30 wrote:And, if you think about it, when most of the Mozilla projects such as CCK gt finished, that will be even worse. I wouldn't be surprised if I see the Mozilla FTP server split into two different servers with one for programs such as Appsuite, Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, etc... and another for CCK, SpiderMonkey, Calendar, etc...


Hi,
And Bugzilla.
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Postby Don_HH2K » Wed 23 Jun, 2004 10:31 pm

There is really no need for a Bugzilla FTP server. Since it's a bug tracking library, it can probably stay in HTTP format for now.
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