qBittorrent / Is there a way to automatically detect and activate demanded torrents with no active seeders? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Aiii! I have some rare torrents with only a few active seeders, but I can only seed about 8 torrents at a time due to my very slow server. If I try to seed more, Jellyfin doesn't work properly.

Currently, I select a few torrents to seed for a few days, and then I switch to new ones. However, I feel bad for those who need to download torrents with only a few or no seeders while I have them but not actively seeding. I could activate these "dead" torrents, but I don't want to waste my bandwidth by not seeding most of the time.

Is there a way to automatically detect and activate demanded torrents with no active seeders? While deactivating running torrents which don't are in need of seeding?

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Just set a speed or connection limit instead.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Agreed, I always leave everything seeding and also disable queuing. Leaving "Global maximum number of connections" at default setting (can be set lower) along with configuring Global Rate Limits Upload/Download to something appropriate works perfectly.

Torrent clients are smart enough to juggle the active torrents and share the allowed bandwidth between them without you having to micro-manage the whole thing.