Can uTorrent Automatically Start Seeding When There Are No Seeders?

[DasFox]

I'm an uploader on a tracker and when I've completed seeding my torrents I wanted to know can uTorrent be set to automatically make me seed when there is no one on seeding, that way a seed never goes dead?

THANKS

[hermanm]

Leave µTorrent on and the torrents active. If you're going to use µTorrent for archiving purposes, the number of peers per torrent would need to be set very low (e.g. 3 per torrent) if you have a long list of torrents you want to seed.

[DasFox]

Thanks for the reply, I don't really understand.

If you are done seeding and need to put a torrent on Finished, then how do you leave it as active?

µTorrent for archiving purposes? Sorry again I don't understand any of this, if you can also further explain?

Well if I'm a seeder on a tracker why do you have to set the limit of peers? Why can't it be unlimited?

THANKS

[hermanm]

edit - Ultima's answer is better.

[Ultima]

Don't have the upload rate set to 0 upon reaching the seeding goal (Preferences > Queueing > Limit the upload rate to). queue.prio_no_seeds should handle the rest.

[Switeck]

It is actually NOT beneficial to have very many more peers connected per torrent than your upload slots per torrent WHILE seeding. This means even for fast lines, 10 peers per torrent is sufficient for redundancy beyond your upload slot max. For slower lines or running lots of torrents, even 3-5 is enough.

Do note that uTorrent does NOT run well with upload slots set to only 1 unless you have 5+ torrents uploading at once. Weird upload bursts like this occur:

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=56580