peer.disconnect_inactive_interval

[lennart]

Hey,

how is this function defined? Does a greater or a smaller value disconnect the peers after a longer timeperiod?

Maybe you should define all of these advanced functions somewhere

thx & greets, lennart

[DomZ]

It will probs be added to the FAQ once it is out of beta.

The smaller the value, the quicker uTorent disconnects inactive peers, well that's how I read it anyways.

[smackphat]

If you go back to the old post announcing the feature in 1.1.3, you'll notice that it says that it disconnects inactive peers after 5 minutes.

The peer.disconnect_inactive_interval defaults to 300 and that is seconds, so if you wanted to disconnect inactive peers after 10 minutes change it to 600, 15 would be 900 and so on. Or you could make it disconnect inactive peers after 120 seconds or whatever.

Although I've read and then found that just disabling peer.disconnect_inactive has resulted in better speeds. To each their own though.

[ColdArmor]

If peers are just idle or you can't seem to connect with them, it will disconnect/stop trying to conenct after the value, the value is in seconds FYI.

[tumu]

Inactive peers are additional overhead, so keeping the option enabled is good for low upload connections.

[ColdArmor]

I would not put it below 60 secs IMO.

[Firon]

using lower than 5 minutes still isn't a good idea, you'd generate a lot more overhead that way because disconnecting and reconnecting every 60 seconds would generate more overhead. if you insist on changing it, either turn it OFF, or use a higher value than 300, like 900. Setting it lower is likely to make things worse.

[ColdArmor]

Yeah I tried it at 60 seconds & my speeds were noticibly lower & I got connected to less peers than usual on torrents that I can usually get a good amount of connections on.

[rocketo]

i have peer.disconnect_inactive=true and peer.disconnect_inactive_interval=300 but i see a peer that has been inactive for over 30 minutes and another that has been inactive for nearly 4 hours! perhaps i don't understand how disconnect works? or is this a bug?

[Firon]

"peer.disconnect_inactive This enables or disables disconnecting from inactive peers after a set period of time (default being 5 minutes). However, it will NOT disconnect if the number of peers in the swarm is low."

low being smaller than your number of connections/torrent.

[ColdArmor]

I have 50 peers/torrent and it will disconnect if I am connected to like 20 or so that is not etirely true.