• Rustmilian
      link
      fedilink
      English
      14
      edit-2
      4 months ago

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

      • @ZeroEcks@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        184 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

        • Rustmilian
          link
          fedilink
          English
          0
          edit-2
          4 months ago

          True, but as a minimum you should be doing 200%.
          Also in a ideal scenario that 200% would be spread out to a lot more people then just 2.

          • littleblue✨
            link
            fedilink
            English
            14 months ago

            OP is showing 200% as their maximum. That’s the whole point of this thread. 🤌🏼

              • littleblue✨
                link
                fedilink
                English
                -14 months ago

                I’m not the one reiterating the salient point of a very short thread. Might do well to read that to yourself instead, friendo. 🤗

    • @blindsight@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      8
      edit-2
      4 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.

      • @Catsrules@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        24 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.

        • @blindsight@beehaw.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          14 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.

          • @Catsrules@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            14 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.

            • @blindsight@beehaw.org
              link
              fedilink
              English
              14 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?