[tex-live] TeX Live on usb drive

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Fri Mar 20 00:27:59 CET 2009


2009/3/19, Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh at royal-tunbridge-wells.org>:
>  But I would genuinely have thought that he (and
>  Cambridge) would have preferred one 1Gb transfer
>  to 5890 piddly little ones.  What is the (CPU or
>  otherwise) overhead of 5890 FTP transfers compared
>  to one ?

Robin's problem is not cpu, but traffic.

Get TL through Bittorrent, if you can, please.

Best
   Martin

PS: If the University of Cambridge has a problem with the traffic of
    its CTAN node, I strongly suggest (once again) to move that node
    to a hosted root server without traffic limitations. It works for
    DANTE.


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