Hello everyone,
can anyone tell me what the optimal piece size for torrents is (in relation to their overall size)?
If you create a new torrent in BitTorrent it will offer the following piece sizes:
I try to look up how the auto-detect algorithm works, but I didn't find any information about it.
In the Internet I found the following article: Torrent Piece Size - VuzeWiki
What do you think about these recommendations mentioned in the article as well as in the post?
What are your recommendations (if auto-detect is / would be not available)?
can anyone tell me what the optimal piece size for torrents is (in relation to their overall size)?
If you create a new torrent in BitTorrent it will offer the following piece sizes:
Code:
auto-detect
16 kB
32 kB
64 kB
128 kB
256 kB
512 kB
1024 kB
2048 kB
4096 kB
8192 kB
16384 kB
In the Internet I found the following article: Torrent Piece Size - VuzeWiki
And the following post in a forum: Piece size of torrentsFile size - piece size
350 MB - 256 or 512 kB
1400 MB - 1024 kB
* Files up to 50MiB: 32KiB piece size
* Files 50MiB to 150MiB: 64KiB piece size
* Files 150MiB to 350MiB: 128KiB piece size
* Files 350MiB to 512MiB: 256KiB piece size
* Files 512MiB to 1.0GiB: 512KiB piece size
* Files 1.0GiB to 2.0GiB: 1024KiB piece size
* Files 2.0GiB and up: 2048KiB piece size
* Piece sizes above 2048KiB are not recommended.
What do you think about these recommendations mentioned in the article as well as in the post?
What are your recommendations (if auto-detect is / would be not available)?