submitted 4 days ago by cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Is there any downside to leaving something seeding indefinitely? Typically I just leave all my torrents seeding whenever I'm done 24/7 (whenever the VPN is on) but is there any detrimental issues to seeding too much?

It doesn't bother me I was just curious if there was ever a such thing as too much seeding since I have like 20+ things seeding and maybe one thing downloading.

Speed isn't an issue since I have gigabit internet.

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[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

Depends on how many torrents you have. You have a set number of global peers. So if all of those peer slots are occupied by leechers, then you won't have any room to download anything. A way around this is torrent priorities.

Setting seeding torrents to low priority will ensure that any new torrents imported at normal priority will download without an issue. You can even set seeding torrents to high priority to ensure that they'll always seed, even if it means taking priority over your downloads.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Ooh I never thought to use the priority more! I'm doing that today!

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io -1 points 4 days ago

You have a set number of global peers

You do know that you can increase this, right?

[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

You also know that if it's set to high, it will overload the switch? Increasing it without thinking isn't smart.

You need to have an appropriately set number of global peers. You can't just "HAHA NUMBER UP!" just for the hell of it...

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 0 points 3 days ago

You can if you don't run anemic networking gear. Have three PCs running torrent apps, with a total number of allowed connections sitting at right around 1200 between all of the torrent clients. Zero issues.

[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

You're not having issues because it's very likely it's limited by your ISP regardless. There's simply no way a consumer ISP (or VPN) is allowing 1200 simultaneous UDP connections. So you could likely set it to a million and have no issues. Because you're being limited to ~250-500 at the protocol level by your ISP/VPN. lol

Situations like this, torrent priority is even more important because there's a high likelihood you're not able to connect to peers you otherwise would be able to if you were using priorities...