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Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by oh_sigh on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:24PM (#17305184)
3.4PB/month is only 111,000 GB/day. That's not particularly huge in this day and age, except to consumers.
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Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by Xorlev on Thursday June 14, 2018 @12:13AM (#17309229)
I imagine this traffic is fairly bursty as well.

Also keep in mind this is a data distribution system. In the case of large data pushes, new builds, etc. it's important that all peers get the new data on a timely and reliable manner.

I suspect you're underestimating the problem this project solves by focusing on a mostly irrelevant data rate stat.

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