Is there any downside to leaving something seeding indefinitely? Typically I just leave all my torrents seeding whenever I’m done 24/7 (whenever the VPN is on) but is there any detrimental issues to seeding too much?
It doesn’t bother me I was just curious if there was ever a such thing as too much seeding since I have like 20+ things seeding and maybe one thing downloading.
Speed isn’t an issue since I have gigabit internet.
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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)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.
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.
does your ISP cap your data like 1TB per month? If you reach the 1TB, your speed will slow down.
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…)
Bless you.
I deliberately leave stuff that’s been a bastard to get seeding as long as physically possible. We’ve all felt the pain. Don’t spread it.
Exactly. There’s little point in keep seeding popular torrents on public trackers (it’s a different story for private trackers though).
But if you have a rare torrent that has been difficult to complete, please please keep seeding it for as much as possible!
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
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.
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.
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
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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Seeding is the true fuck you to the the media corpos.
Get fucked parasites.
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.
I’m seeding around 1600 things. I tried to seed a news paper I need, around 5k items and it crashed qbit.
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.
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…
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.
