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There's no such thing as too much seeding.
Well, maybe the 85tb of Ubuntu 24.04 I've done is too much, but I mean, whatever.
(I've got basically everything I've downloaded in the last 7 years seeding, some 6000 torrents. qBittorrent isn't the most happy with this, but it's still working, if using a shit-ton of RAM at this point.)
You’re a hero.
There’s wear and tear on your drives and your bandwidth usage, but if you meant from the tracker’s perspective - none, in fact the more the better
Is the wear and tear a considerable amount over time? Or just something to consider as it does some compared to not seeding 24/7?
Not really, at least not because of the data access. Drives mainly die because of their age.
SSDs will basically not degrade by reading them, they only degrade when you write to them.
HDDs can get degraded because of data access, but most HDD deaths are caused by bearing failures or head crashes, which are more of a matter of power-on hours.
What all of this means is that if you already kept your device on 24/7, your drives aren't gonna degrade noticeably faster by having your torrent client accessing them all the time.
Drive failures have almost nothing to do with access if they are mechanical. Most failures are from bearing or solder interconnect failures over time.
Also, most seeding is in smaller chunks that are read and cached if popular... Meaning less drive hits than 1-1 read vs upload.
You will almost always have drives fail from other aspects like heat or power or old age before wear from seeding would ever be enough to matter.
I have drives in the excess of 10+ years, with several seeds that have been active for many years of those, that are still running just fine.
Lots of permaseeders out there, you can be one too :)
There's no real downside as long as your ISP doesn't limit your bandwidth.
This is especially useful for Books. Small torrents are so hard to find. I perma seed books/audiobooks and copy to my slskd directory because they're so hard.
Is there an easy way to permaseed in qBittorent?
Permaseed is the default. To disable perma-seed would be to set an upload limit, like a time amount or a ratio.
I run a ratio of 2:1 for most stuff
I have this book. It's a few Kb in size and I have already seed Gb of it. It has an insane ratio. I think I will never delete that torrent.
Doing the lords work.
Not really, as long as your VPN setup is solid (assuming you need it to avoid letters) and you don't mind the bandwidth usage. I have some ratios in the 500s
This guy Seeds
I have some ratios in the 500s
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No with a VPN you are good. Sharing is caring.
I have around 400 items seeding 24/7. No problems at all, except that I am sending from my media server via my desktop,so I need to set speed limits in my torrent client to keep from saturating the wifi connection. (Slowly working to get things migrated over...)
I’m seeding around 1600 things. I tried to seed a news paper I need, around 5k items and it crashed qbit.
If your router is the one that your ISP provided, torrenting can affect your internet connection stability by having too many connections active, because most of the time that hardware is trash (at least from my experience).
Most (all?) torrent clients support limiting the number of active connections. This should prevent your router from being overloaded.
In my experience 500 shouldn't be a problem. On that note, limiting upload bandwidth to something less than the available upload bandwidth is important too.
250 active connections is the limit with my ISP provided router. You can get beyond that, but it causes a lot of instability, and eventually, the network fails and the router reboots.
On another note, I don't limit my bandwidth at all and I've managed to get uploads/downloads of up to 142% the speed which I should get.
250 connections really is not much. I ran a matrix server for a while and joining a few large rooms (1k+ servers) made the connections reach a few thousand – which made the router slow down/unstable/reboot.
I've noticed the same for my upload bandwitdh, with it being 170%-200% of its advertised maximum speed. Sadly the same can't be said about the download bandwidth. Luckily fiber will be available in a few months.
250 active connections is the limit with my ISP provided router
So buy your own.
Yeah I know I should, and it's on my list, but I haven't changed it yet lol. I'm making it work like this and if I can stretch it until they replace it for a more capable model, that's money that I don't have to spend on it.
Hm, interesting. I didn't bother with a personal router for the longest time (aside from an old Linksys I got because it works with ExpressVPN) because I have fibre optic but I might go out and look for one now.
One related thing to watch out for is the state table size - one of my old cheap routers back in the day showed how full it was and it was hitting 100% a lot and seemed to grind the network to a halt when it did (I was in a house of 5 young people with lots of devices and multiple people torrenting behind a cheapo Netgear running ddwrt). That's what lead me to switch to high end or x86 based routers. Being able to see the state table stats really helps to know how likely it is to be a problem, it's so big when using opnsense on an x86 box that I don't think it ever goes above 1% now.
Edit: now that I think about it, if your VPN is working I wouldn't expect any states related to peer connections to show up since your router won't be NATing them, I guess I was just bold back in the day because it was a huge problem then.
Seeding some torrents since 2022. So no.
Only for your bandwidth though. Make sure to set bandwidth caps for either trackers or timeslots (e.g. evening for gaming time)
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.
Ooh I never thought to use the priority more! I'm doing that today!
You have a set number of global peers
You do know that you can increase this, right?
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...
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.
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...
I generally keep things seeding indefinitely when I keep the content, to make the network stronger. For other things I delete it once it surpasses at least 1.0 ratio.
The only real downside to seeding indefinitely is that you have to store it, but I would be storing what I do that for anyway.
No issues at all! Obviously speed caps will be useful since eventually you'll have enough torrents that even gigabit will be saturated, but even a low speed can mean a lot over a long time.
I seed content I get as much as I can to I2P. No data caps here so not really any downside. You do have to limit stuff a bit to not overwhelm your connection at some point
does your ISP cap your data like 1TB per month? If you reach the 1TB, your speed will slow down.
maybe if its extreme gluck porn with lots of dicks you will hit your bandwidth limit for the month and so all other torrents will stop seeding until the next billing cycle
In the case of Transmission, I've noticed that depending on server resources, there's an upper limit to how many seeds you can run and still get reasonable downloads. No idea why, but if you seed like 100-ish items, you basically never get decent downloads, and it's not like the upload speeds are great either, so it's not bandwidth.
I think it's related to the number of open connections. If you have 100+ torrents you're going to have a lot of open connections to leeches, so your new downloads will have to wait for slots to open.
You could fix it by setting all of your seeding torrents as low priority, so your new normal-priority downloads will start.
That was my first thought, but messing with connection max and priority doesn't seem to really change the situation, although maybe it is X percent better, it's just not a panacea.