How to know how many concurrent active torrents are too many? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by trivial99@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Thanks to this Lemmy I entered the magic world of private trackers, and now the list of torrents I keep seeding is growing by the day. How can I detect when the number of torrents is detrimental to the functioning of the network? What is a reasonable ball park estimate of active (even if "dormant") torrents?

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[-] uyuu@lemmy.4d2.org 4 points 2 years ago

Concurrent active torrents? So you mean only the ones that has activity on them? Entirely depends on your system. If you have ssds, you can have a lot, with hdds, not so much. I would limit the upload slots per torrent to 3-5 and set the global upload slots to 75 or something like that. Looking at the statistics of the io time in queue can also help. I have about 19k torrents and 30-60 are active out of them on hdds. Once on EMP freeleech it hit 100+ active ones, that was when I limited it as that was too much.