212121 Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 Hi, I have read the faq, help, etc but I still don't understand what this option does.If I have 2000 torrents and set that option to 200, will it still seed a torrent that is not "active"? (if a peer tries to download it)I have it set it to the number of torrents i'm seeding, if I have 2000 torrents I set it to 2000+. Or I shouldn't set all my torrents active? any problem?Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 There's an effective number of torrents that can be active at once.Each connection is different.Follow the connection setup guide and set ALL the settings appropriate to your connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212121 Posted December 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 I did that mate, but if i don't leave them all active won't I loose oportunity to seed when someone tries to download? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 uTorrent will intelligently rotate through them. If you set more to be active than your connection can handle, you'll be uploading at less than 100bytes/sec to people, which is about as useless as not uploading at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212121 Posted December 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 My isp limit is 100KBs upload, i have set 17000 torrents active and had no problems... thanks for replies btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 100 divided by 17000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212121 Posted December 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 no!I only use private trackers, I got at max 4 uploads going on in the same time that's why i wanted them all activeforgot to say that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 Torrents that have low activity don't count towards queue totals. Set your numbers low and you won't kidney-punch your connection so hard its liver comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 28, 2008 Report Share Posted December 28, 2008 How crazy is your net.max_halfopen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212121 Posted December 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 *50why? don't even know what it does lolthanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 If you dont know, don't do it. Set to max of 8 by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 With net.max_halfopen set to *50 (the * means different than default value), you've told uTorrent to continually make 50 NEW outgoing connections at once.This is on top of any connections it already has and on top of any new INCOMING connections (if uTorrent is not firewalled) you are getting. Easily 100's of extra connection attempts every few seconds.Eventually, uTorrent is just retrying the same ips over and over again at this rate. If they didn't "answer the phone" on the 1st call, maybe they will on the 100+ try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212121 Posted January 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 Hi, sorry for being away for some timeJust wanted to say thanks for the replies, I have set it back to 8, don't know why it was changedBut anyway if you say it's better this way... i'll do it I still have some trouble understanding the active torrents...I have 2475 total torrents, only being seeded! No downloads, and it's only from private trackers, so I really need them to be active to start uploading when someone downloads. From 2475 I can only get 2, 3 or 4 to be uploading at the same time (because people aren't always downloading).From what I understand, it would be a problem if I had so many torrents active and there were always people downloading from many torrents, or am I wrong?I'm just afraid of loosing upload opportunities if someone downloads a torrent and I can't upload because it isn't active, and then people will download from other seeders. Don't know if this makes any senseThanks again, cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 Disaster in the making...due to private trackers being broken-by-design:http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/User:The8472/Private_trackers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212121 Posted January 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Thanks, does that help with my questions? eheh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 uTorrent is NOT well-suited for running 100's of torrents at once and certainly unsuited from running 2475 total torrents at once!You cannot really compete with 1000's of others trying to upload to the same peer. You're just 1 connection, however fast. Since you can't "win" with any particular peer on any particular torrent, you're trying to compete on all of them...all at once! So you're seeking to make peer/seed connections on all 2475 torrents...over less than 1 hour period. (over each tracker update) Your line will resemble a borderline Denial of Service attack while doing so. That is the "game" private trackers devolve into. And it occurs because uTorrent is forced into doing something it is not suited to doing!Your upload max is really the main upper limit to how many ACTIVE torrents you can run at once. My rule of thumb is at least 10 KiloBYTES/second upload speed PER Active torrent.I'm not giving you a solution because I don't really have one...except to say I don't do private trackers because "That game's not winnable!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtjohnst Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Not to mention your question was already answered. uTorrent will "rotate" through. If 2470 torrents have no leachers or have such a high seeder:leacher ratio that your not uploading, it will move on to the next torrent and keep cycling through them all until all your active slots are being used. If ever. Setting your number of active torrents to a lower number will get you better ratios, because you will be able to dedicate more of your bandwidth to uploading those few instead of uploading very little on a larger number. "Less is more."Like Switeck though, I've just stopped using private trackers. The cons outweigh the pros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212121 Posted January 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Thanks for the help!Nice of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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