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Please keep torrents for the new release going as long as you can. Let's use our united bandwidth to keep it going.

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Originally Posted by dive (Post 3979975)

Please keep torrents for the new release going as long as you can. Let's use our united bandwidth to keep it going.

I'm on it, my friend! Seeding 13.1 as we speak. :)

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Originally Posted by hitest (Post 3979977)

I'm on it, my friend! Seeding 13.1 as we speak. :)

Lucky you, I'm still downloading. I'll join the band when done.

question about torrents:
I'm running bittorrent with D1. Would it be worthwhile to start rtorrent, or something else, and start D2 at the same time?
Thanks.

whoa! I missed it!!!! I promise I'll seed it for a month 24/7:)

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Originally Posted by multios (Post 3980013)

question about torrents:
I'm running bittorrent with D1. Would it be worthwhile to start rtorrent, or something else, and start D2 at the same time?
Thanks.

Well that depends on your bandwidth and how fast they are coming for you. If you have bandwidth to spare then I would say try grabbing D2 too

thanks dive, just figured it out :)

I don't really have any experience with torrents. Does it make sense that I'd be downloading from 6 of 38 peers?

I'm downloading the 64bit and 32bit DVDs. I'll try to keep seeding as long as I can, although I've got just a pittance of upstream bandwidth.

Code:

sh ~/bin/mirror-slackware-current.sh -l /mnt/sda_8/slackware -a x86_64 -o NONE -r 13.1 -m slackware.mirrors.tds.net::slackware/slackware64-13.1

Code:

al@P5Q:/mnt/sda_8/slackware$ sligdo .

Found 6483 of the 6483 files required by the template

Successfully created `slackware64-13.1-iso/slackware64-13.1-install-dvd.iso'

al@P5Q:/mnt/sda_8/slackware$

Sooo ooo ooo cool!!

I had been doing my local mirror of 64current:

Code:

al@P5Q:/mnt/sda_8/slackware$ ls

slackware-12.2/                    slackware64-13.1-install-dvd.template

slackware-12.2-iso/                slackware64-13.1-install-dvd.torrent

slackware-current/                  slackware64-13.1-iso/

slackware-current-iso/              slackware64-current/

slackware64-13.1/                  slackware64-current-iso/

slackware64-13.1-install-dvd.jigdo

al@P5Q:/mnt/sda_8/slackware$

I temporarily renamed 64-current to 64-13.1

Then I ran the top mirror-slack-current command which, in short order, synced 64-13.1

Then I ran sligdo .

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post3979917

Then I ran the .torrent against the resultant .iso from the sligdo

And, the torrent is now (it verified ie it's 100% downloaded) uploading at 20 KB/s

I'll leave it on (seed) for at least 3 or 4 or more days.

A small lift up. It's the least that I can do.

T h a n k Y o u !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm more or less a torrent virgin. Haven't RTFM'ed or anything. Are these slow up/download speeds normal?
download: jumping about between 80 to 430 KiB/s.
upload: jumping about between 1 to 70 KiB/s.
Using ktorrent & bittorrent.

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Originally Posted by brianL (Post 3980450)

Are these slow up/download speeds normal?
download: jumping about between 80 to 430 KiB/s.
upload: jumping about between 1 to 70 KiB/s.

Reasonable for DSL. I'm jealous. :p

Don't let it use *all* your bandwidth, otherwise browsing etc will become horribly slow. Go to Settings -> Configure ktorrent -> Network, and put reasonable values in "Maximum download speed" and "Maximum upload speed" -- for example, 80% of your max bandwidth. That will help it run smoothly.

Thanks.
P.S.
It's just hit 640 KiB/s download.

Am seeding, but I had to download the iso from a mirror, because the torrent wasn't working well. I just copied the iso into there and it is seeding.