On 2008-01-26, Larry Jaques novalidaddress@di wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:20:10 -0600, with neither quill nor qualm,
Ignoramus28017 quickly quoth:

On 2008-01-26, RoyJ wrote:
Iggy's site was slow in the middle of the day. I think he has other
applications on his server.

I run Bit Torrent and have a webserver of minor importance. Nothing
much beyond that. Sometimes it is worse and sometimes it is better.

I loaded that a few months ago, with uncertainty, and immediately
removed it. I have a real problem giving other people my computer
cycles. My box slowed to molasses and I was seeing tons of hard drive
access without any of my own programs open. Scary ****, Maynard. I
thought I had a nasty virus and everyone was sucking my hard drive
dry. Lesson learned.


I have Azureus for a Bit Torrent client, and I can limit upload speed
to what is acceptable to me. I limites it to 50 kilobytes per second,
about 500 kbps.

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