• blindsight@beehaw.org
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    8 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.

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      8 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.

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        8 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.

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          8 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.

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            8 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?