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megido-rev.M:

--- Quote from: Bob2004 on February 05, 2013, 11:33:06 PM ---I was always under the impression that, rather than trying to get more seeders (ie. people with the entire torrent) as quickly as possible, the point of initial seeding was to get different bits to as many different peers as possible. In other words, try and get all of file 1 to one person, all of file 2 to a second, file 3 to a third, etc, so that the entire torrent is available from sources other than the initial seeder as soon as possible (and so that the load from other leechers is spread out as quickly as possible, too, since they can all download from each other).

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This is definitely the case for utorrent.

Freedom Kira:
That is quite correct. You are also correct that it is useless to judge based on time, which is why it is not measured based on time, but rather how much of the file the initial seeder must seed before it is fully distributed.

I can't remember if he was waiting until more seeders showed up or if he was waiting until the swarm availability reached 1.0. The latter case would probably be more meaningful.

Bob2004:

--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on February 06, 2013, 05:24:39 AM ---That is quite correct. You are also correct that it is useless to judge based on time, which is why it is not measured based on time, but rather how much of the file the initial seeder must seed before it is fully distributed.

I can't remember if he was waiting until more seeders showed up or if he was waiting until the swarm availability reached 1.0. The latter case would probably be more meaningful.

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Ah, OK. Your post made it sound like he was measuring how long it took until another person had downloaded the entire file (and became a seeder rather than a leecher). Which I'd argue is not a useful statistic to measure - but yeah, swarm availability is much more logical.

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