What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub

Re:What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub by adPothier on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:39AM (#6019953)

Ocelot, their custom-made C++ tracker is a nice piece of code. They were forced to drop out php-based and XBTT-based trackers some years ago when the server load from their became huge peer swarm became unmanageable.

TorrentFreak made a great story about this[1].

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/what-cd-debuts-lightweight-tracker-f...

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Re:What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub by FZeroX on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:33PM (#6020895)

PHP wasn't really the limiting factor, it's the architecture that XBTT uses that really kills you - an SQL query for every single announce! (With millions of peers that means hundreds of SQL queries per second just to maintain your swarm)

Some other cool trackers to look at are Shadowolf (although I believe that's discontinued, sadly) and Lioness if that's floating around anywhere (What.CD likes wildcat-based codenames)

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Re:What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub by brass9 on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @01:13PM (#6021240)

Is the ocelot code opensource? I'd be interested in it.

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Re:What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub by dewey on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @02:03PM (#6021659)

Yes, it's in the repository (https://github.com/WhatCD/Gazelle/blob/master/ocelot-0.6.tar...)

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