• Rustmilian@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

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

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        8 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

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      8 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.

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        8 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.

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          8 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.

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            8 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.

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              8 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?