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I don't know how to solve you issue, just stopped by to say you are a saint. I still cherish the memory of downloading some hyperspecific scientific software from one guy in Kazakhstan at 3 am. Good job!
Just set a speed or connection limit instead.
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.
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If you aren't seeding (no one is downloading the torrent), then your bandwidth should not be used (besides a miniscule amount). So it shouldn't waste your bandwidth. Is your concern about wasting bandwidth more about seeding a torrent when there are other seeders available? So you want to prioritize torrents that have zero other seeders?
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It looks like this tool Jackett (I've never used it before; just found it in a search) can be configured to allow your system to query trackers for torrents and return the number of seeders and leechers. But a lot of assembly would be required. And the freshness of results would depend on how often trackers update their stats - definitely not real-time.
For a torrent application that can do what Jackett does in real-time by connecting directly to the torrent and prioritizing bandwidth to torrents that have leechers and no other seeders, I'll leave that to others in the community more familiar with the topic.
I wish clients would prioritize low seed torrents.
I disable queuing and just have a bandwidth cap on my torrent client. Technically, I'm seeding thousands of torrents and don't have any issue.
Occasionally when I go to clean up some torrents (like when migrating servers) I purge based on most seeders first and never kill anything below 3 seeds.
OP what are the specs of your system that seeding more than 8 torrents causes issues?
Not op. But I had plex server and torrent on raspberry pi. And it would become slow sometimes.
PC was slow or the network?
Raspberry pi
No idea but I love how you fuck
I’m part of a private tracker and am hosting some low seeder torrents all the time.m using my servers. If you want I can download them from you, set them to their own category so they don’t get removed and just seed them for ya. Feel free to message me.
I'm also part of a private tracker and I usually keep ~200 torrents seeding. My server is not even that powerful.
I fear that OP may have misconfigured something else on his server.
That or they have failing hardware or really bad upload or something. Maybe they’re using a bad client or something. Seems odd for sure.
I have a HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10, 8G.
I don't know why its this slow. I thought that would be normal. Its just running qBittorrent, a VPN and Jellyfin under Win10. (Im to lazy to switch to Linux. Dont touch (a moastly) running system.) Anything above 20 global upload slots, and Jellyfin has to puffer the playback every 5 seconds.
I’ve got qbit running in the following configuration…
Core i5-8500T hardware > proxmox > Ubuntu virtual machine > docker > qbit. Currently seeding nearly 500 torrents and using less than 4gigs of ram. Qbit itself is running on ssd, while all torrent files are running on hard drives over SMB share. Something is up with your system.
these clients should be handling this for you. announcing a torrent is available for seeding isnt a huge deal. you should never have to limit the content you're making available, just the amount of resources you're willing to dedicate to active transfer. this might be of interest to you in a few months when its available, slated for june to be daily usable.
This isn't exactly what you asked about but it seems at least adjacent to what you're looking for: https://gitlab.com/rpatterson/prunerr
Thank you! I interpret that this solution is more likely a Disk space manager for more efficient space usage. Delete available torrents, keep torrents in need. But I assume that this solution needs to have every torrent active and cant manage the status of the torrents.
I just found this other project that maybe could help:
https://github.com/itschasa/speedrr
It doesn't do exactly what you're looking for but you can set it to slow down your overall torrent upload speed whenever you're streaming from your media server.
Edit: unless the issue is CPU usage? But my guess is that it's a bandwidth issue to enable uploading on all of your torrents.
Can you just set a bandwidth cap on your client or would your server still not have the cpu power to serve video?
What are you running this on, and are you transcoding, btw?
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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