Porting debtorrent to C/C++

[Voker57]

On Saturday 19 January 2008 08:13:49 Bryan Quigley wrote:
> I don't know why python couldn't handle the "load" correctly, the original
> bit torrent is in python.

Do you mean BitTornado? It's known by its memory and CPU greediness as well.

> Having said that I turned off debtorrent on my hardy box for now pending an
> unrelated idling bug[1], but before I got it uninstalled it I was nervous
> of the 122 Mb of ram it was taking up as this is a desktop system.

That's why it takes so much memory - it's in interpreted language.

> According to Debtorrent's local web server it never actually connected to
> anything but 1 seeder.  Would that just be regular http?
>
> And how is Debtorrent in Hardy if this bug still exists[2]?
>
> Also, as a side note I successfully used debtorrent as a cache server for
> several machines as a test. It definitely makes more sense to use
> debtorrent for an always on cache server as opposed to apt-cache.
>
> [1] Unrelated Idleing bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/177713
>
> [2] How in Hardy? 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/163891
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan

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Voker57
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