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M.D. Geist · 2006-11-19, 17:30

Does anyone know how much traffic a tracker does produce ?

I was wondering how many ppl i could handle if i use my home pc as tracker til it would be hard to upload files and track simultaneously. (Im on 384kbit dsl...)

Does anyone have some statistics?

(initial downloading of the torrent should be no problem, but how much bandwidth do ~100 users need?)

DWKnight · 2006-11-20, 16:07

The tracker itself isn't that bandwidth intensive. It's more the seeding that you need to worry about (pester people)

Soulfang · 2006-11-20, 20:26

^ Agreed. You might run into problems with performance if you're using the rest of your 384Kbit connection with seeding, though. I'd recommend capping your upload for seeding at around 30KB/sec.

IMSabbel · 2006-11-23, 11:03

Wasnt it a rule of thump that you get about a Mbit tracker traffic for every 5Gbit peer traffic?

M.D. Geist · 2006-11-25, 10:47

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Originally Posted by IMSabbel

Wasnt it a rule of thump that you get about a Mbit tracker traffic for every 5Gbit peer traffic?

hmm so 1mb per 40gb transfered ?

found another statistik :

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with 5500 peers connected will use approximately 15-20KB/sec continuously (this includes serving the torrent statistics as well as the torrents themselves.) This is a combined up/down figure. Approximate CPU usage with the P4 1.6GHz is 20% (the mysql database runs on the same processor.)

thats about 50gig per month, argh !
well my pc could then handle about ~10k peers, sounds enough though...

hhaamu · 2006-11-26, 03:20

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(this includes serving the torrent statistics as well as the torrents themselves.)

Find an external host for the torrents. On a limited bandwidth tracker you'd be a fool not to.

M.D. Geist · 2006-11-26, 12:19

your typical anime episode torrent is like 30kb

10000 downloading this torrent ~> 300´000kb ~ 300mb

hmm you have a point there...

however, for small torrentsites , it shouldnt matter that much

danomac · 2006-11-27, 16:43

That quote looks familiar... heh.

Anyhow, if the 10,000 downloads are spread out over time, then serving torrents isn't bad. However, if you have a popular torrent (Naruto, Bleach, Tsubasa Chronicle) that have 10-20,000 requests in less than a day, your bandwidth will not fare so well.

The actual traffic generated from the tracker announces itself are small. One torrent on the tracker I have was almost 2GB just serving the torrent. And yes, I'm looking for another (faster) place to host the torrents themselves.

2006-11-19, 17:30	Link #1
M.D. Geist Senior Member Join Date: May 2006	Traffic of a Tracker ? Does anyone know how much traffic a tracker does produce ? I was wondering how many ppl i could handle if i use my home pc as tracker til it would be hard to upload files and track simultaneously. (Im on 384kbit dsl...) Does anyone have some statistics? (initial downloading of the torrent should be no problem, but how much bandwidth do ~100 users need?)

2006-11-20, 16:07	Link #2
DWKnight Torrent Goon Join Date: Nov 2003	The tracker itself isn't that bandwidth intensive. It's more the seeding that you need to worry about (pester people)

2006-11-20, 20:26	Link #3
Soulfang Inactive Member Join Date: Nov 2003	^ Agreed. You might run into problems with performance if you're using the rest of your 384Kbit connection with seeding, though. I'd recommend capping your upload for seeding at around 30KB/sec.

2006-11-23, 11:03	Link #4
IMSabbel Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003	Wasnt it a rule of thump that you get about a Mbit tracker traffic for every 5Gbit peer traffic?

2006-11-26, 12:19	Link #7
M.D. Geist Senior Member Join Date: May 2006	your typical anime episode torrent is like 30kb 10000 downloading this torrent ~> 300´000kb ~ 300mb hmm you have a point there... however, for small torrentsites , it shouldnt matter that much

2006-11-27, 16:43	Link #8
danomac Junior Member Fansubber Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Age: 47	That quote looks familiar... heh. Anyhow, if the 10,000 downloads are spread out over time, then serving torrents isn't bad. However, if you have a popular torrent (Naruto, Bleach, Tsubasa Chronicle) that have 10-20,000 requests in less than a day, your bandwidth will not fare so well. The actual traffic generated from the tracker announces itself are small. One torrent on the tracker I have was almost 2GB just serving the torrent. And yes, I'm looking for another (faster) place to host the torrents themselves.