Comment 4 for bug 319529

Therein lies the rub. If you have a swarm where people are only getting a few files from the torrent the number of seeds would be quite low and the number of peers would be relatively high. This may result in relatively low performance of the torrent. Torrent's are more suited to large static un-changing blobs of data (video, iso's etc) for this reason.

Also for the very small files the ratio of setup traffic/data transferred would be very high and thus it would be in-efficient.

An alternative would be to use an edonkey/emule p2p protocol which performs better for small files. Still it has it's own issues.

Another method would be to use torrents to synchronise mirrors which is a more practical use.

R