searching various categories, including dead and sorting by size, it does seem as though people do not go after files this large often.
will it die? maybe, but there are some files, near this size, still active and aging well (some added around june 2006).
check out this one here .
8.23GB…lol. added 7-10-2006, and as i type this, still not dead.
personally, i dont have a problem with large file sizes.
if i want the file, i just get it and seed back. no big deal, it's free. 
lots of users do not have their upload speed adjusted properly, it's a fact.
i helped a couple of them through PM and chat.
when some people find out that their upload is effecting their download and web surfing, they tend to cut upload speed to 50% or less of their actual upload capacity.
it should be set at about 80%, adjust it + or - until your download speeds seem fine and web surfing is unaffected
usually 80% is just fine.
it might help some peoples ratio's, then file size or how many torrents a person wants may not be an issue. :whistle:
i wonder exactly how many users have 512kbps-1meg up, for example, and are only uploading at 3KB-25KB.
@the5cardstud:
Bloated is a manner of taste. Unlike most BitTorrent clients, it has more functionality, it is more extensible, and it is cross platform. For example, you can select the files you want in Azureus. Is that wasteful bloat, or a much needed feature?
I wonder if you have your B's and b's mixed up. There is no way that Transmission is that much faster than Azureus – with or without the 'bloat.' I run Azureus on two different platforms. It does use a fair amount of cycles when it is a foreground application that is updating a table or graphic on the display. But if you leave it on "My Torrents" and keep it minimized, I find that it doesn't use much CPU at all.
How to handle a large collection like this is a tough decision. That's why I wanted to start this topic so we each could kick around our different points of view. But once the uploader has started, he should finish -- even if it was a bad decision in retrospect, it would be worse to stop and start over. It's also worse to start a second upload of smaller sets (as that second upload will slow down the first one even more).
i completely agree .
i've had one torrent hit speeds of 800+KB, on this tracker.
yes well over 6400kbps, using azureus, and another hit 725KB+.
it just needs to be set up properly, along with router, firewall and upload limit.
in fact, i've always had better speeds with azureus, whether on a Mac, PC, or Linux.
i could understand a person whining about bloat if they were running an ancient box that had a 733Mhz cpu and 128MB of ram, but that's not an azureus problem…lol.
azureus minimized and torrents running.
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i think that 5 or 6 file packs may have worked better.
if only 1 or 2 of the packs had a persons interest and they were able to clearly see they did not want the others, there would be less worries over file size or picking apart torrents.
5.5GB may scare people with slower connections or borderline ratios, who are honestly trying manage their sharing.
it could take a looooong time to seed that back for some. packs would give them a chance to recover too.
we'll see…
i noticed 70 leechers and a few of them in the 80-90% range, hopefully it'll seed well.
good luck. 
Edit
the uploader is seeding about 20 other torrents along with this, at a whopping 1.09KB.
yes...good luck. :rolleyes:
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