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[-] emhl@feddit.de 73 points 9 months ago

if you snatch a popular torrent that is fine but with dying torrents that is quite harmful

[-] Steve@startrek.website 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Agree. I dont delete anything unless the quality is shit

[-] Jenoki@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago

I'm considering getting a seedbox because with my current storage setup, and my unwillingness to keep the vpn up all the time 2.0 is the best I can do.

[-] Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago

This was annoying me too, and I solved it by spinning out a VM that exists just to run qbittorrent and the vpn connection.

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

I use Gluetun for that. It's a docker container that sets up the VPN and qBittorrent in two containers and routes all traffic from qBittorrent through the VPN.

[-] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago
[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

Because 200% should be your minimum, not your max. 🤌🏼

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If there's no one left to seed, the torrent dies. Seeding back at least 200% ensures the torrent stays healthy.

[-] ZeroEcks@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 months ago

Sometimes you need to seed back more than 200% because the other two people might not be able to seed it back. I would generally not set a limit

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

True, but as a minimum you should be doing 200%.
Also in a ideal scenario that 200% would be spread out to a lot more people then just 2.

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

OP is showing 200% as their maximum. That's the whole point of this thread. 🤌🏼

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago
[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

I'm not the one reiterating the salient point of a very short thread. Might do well to read that to yourself instead, friendo. 🤗

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have no time for children.

[-] jeffreyosborne@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

yo momma🤌🏿

[-] NateSwift@beehaw.org 12 points 9 months ago

It will lead to the torrent dying if everyone stops seeding

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If there are less than 5 seeds, then I keep seeding indefinitely. Above that, I'll consider deleting it to free up space once I'm done with the media.

Unless it's from a private tracker, in which case I'll just seed everything forever to get the sweet bonus points.

[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

How does that work, does the downloader just cycling though seeding torrents or do they all stay active? I feel like there would be so much torrents over time it would slow everything down.

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

I looked it up, and qBittorrent can easily handle hundreds of torrents, apparently. I haven't noticed any problems running 180-ish. I'll probably try to keep it capped to 300 or something like that.

[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Does it matter how many files are in each torrent?

I would think a 100 file torrent would be more intensive than a 3 file torrent.

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think it has any effect at all, but I'm not an expert. It's just sending data by request based on hashes and indices, isn't it?

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