On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 01:29 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 19:16 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > A search for a 200MB file tells you it's available on 2000 hosts, all of
> > whom are on dialup.
>
> What about the real world ?
>
OK that was a poorly contrived example. Anyway the specific numbers
don't matter as much; it's actually quite a common scenario to run out
of FDs before you can fill the pipe. It happens to me about once a
week.
Modern P2P protocols all seem to use some type of "swarming". IIRC the
inspiration was the DDOS attacks of the late 90s - thousands of hosts on
slow connections can fill even the fattest pipe.
Lee
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