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[โ€“] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)
[โ€“] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because 200% should be your minimum, not your max. ๐ŸคŒ๐Ÿผ

[โ€“] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[โ€“] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] ZeroEcks@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

OP is showing 200% as their maximum. That's the whole point of this thread. ๐ŸคŒ๐Ÿผ

[โ€“] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] littlebluespark@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the one reiterating the salient point of a very short thread. Might do well to read that to yourself instead, friendo. ๐Ÿค—

[โ€“] Rustmilian@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I have no time for children.

[โ€“] jeffreyosborne@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

yo momma๐ŸคŒ๐Ÿฟ

[โ€“] NateSwift@beehaw.org 12 points 8 months ago

It will lead to the torrent dying if everyone stops seeding

[โ€“] blindsight@beehaw.org 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] blindsight@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] blindsight@beehaw.org 1 points 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?