Gingko

by auxten

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Imagine that you were a linux sys admin who wants to distribute a large dir to many servers, let’s say 50GB to 1000 servers. That will be a really boring task!!!

With “gingko” you may do it much more efficiently.

Gingko is a C/S style p2p files/dir transfer tool, its usage and behavior is pretty much like scp. It has the advantage listed below:

Zero configure (start the server, then you can use it by just typing the cmd “gingko_clnt host:/path/to/src /path/to/dest”)

High performance (a single server can service 1000 or more clients downloading data in parallel)

Low system resource consumption (16MB memory usage, 2% ~ 7% cpu usage on a 2.4GHz Xeon) )

Continue last downloading enabled

Upload & download bandwidth limitation enabled

Low network noise (thanks to the usage of constant hashing)

Usage

to start the server on HostA

to start the download

-h or --help for more detail

Authors

auxten (auxtenwpc[AT]gmail)

Download

You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.

You can also clone the project with Git by running:

$ git clone git://github.com/auxten/gingko