rules for the queue system?

[Invy]

how exactly does the utorrent queueing work? it seems that it just starts torrents at random. also, i have it set to 3 active (and 16 for download), yet it's seeding 5 torrents right now, and only one of them is actually transferring any data...

[Lord Alderaan]

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=217392#p217392

[Switeck]

Actually, active torrents are the SUM of all seeding and downloading torrents.

So you'd want the reverse:

16 active and 3 downloading.

Or you'd want 19 active and 16 downloading...HOWEVER, you need 100+ KB/sec upload speeds to prevent being a leech or worthless seed on at least one of them. Being a worthless seed just wastes bandwidth...being a leech makes things slower for everyone, even ironically possibly for yourself! Reducing upload slots per torrent can allow you to run more torrents at once without breaking compatibility with the BitTorrent protocol, however you still need at least 1 KB/sec upload speed for every upload slot on every active torrent to technically not be breaking compatibility with the BitTorrent protocol.

If you're attempting to seed lots of barely-active torrents, then just set your max active downloads something low and reasonable and set the advanced setting "queue_dont_count_slow_ul" to true.

[Invy]

wow what a coincidence. right when I clicked this forum I only saw 1 post in this thread. but when I loaded this page, there was actually 2 because Switeck had just posted.

Thanks for the info ;-)