On Sep 29, Francois Petillon <fantec@proxad.net> wrote: > And, as far as I am concerned, disk IO is the greatest problem (disk > capacity & bandwidth is increasing faster than seek time). Thus, we try > to optimize disk IO to get max performance out of that kind of server. > And optimization usually means trying to read the greatest amount of > sectors for each disk seek. Thank you for expressing this clearly. As the administrator of ftp.it.d.o I fully agree with your arguments. To summarize the issue: * parallel downloads are bad * using P2P when local mirrors are available is very bad -- ciao, Marco
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