"Intent" Classified Torrents

[christopherreay]

Ive been reading through the posts on upload quing and scheduling and such, and I think there is an idea that has not been mentioned.

 

People have "Intent" when seeding a torrent. For example, I have two basic categories (or three perhaps) of torrents that I seed

 

1. "Im watching this", Short Term, Huge swarm torrents, expected to be in vogue for a couple of weeks. 
   These I seed to 200% and then delete from my drive
2. "I believe in this", relatively large swarm, long term seeding
   These may have unlimited seeding, and I want them to have some bandwidth when people are asking for them, but not all the badwidth
   I might get bored of it in a few months or a year or something
3. "This is important to me", SMALL swarm, long term seeding
   I want these to have ALL the bandwidth that is requested of them (say up to 80% of my up bandwidth)

The thing is, I think that the scheduling algorithms are really based around the idea that "a torrent might have only 10 users all on dialup.

Torrenting is MUCH more succcessful that that as a paradigm and a medium.

I dont think that it is possible for a mechanism to "automatically" assign bandwidth accurately. For example, torrents is category 1 should be prioritised OLDEST first, so that I can delete them off my hard drive as early as possible. At the moment, uTorrent just keeps starting again, so I end up with Gb and Gb of 100% or 120% or so ratio torrents, instead of calmly plodding through them all oldest first.

 

If a leecher arrives that wants one of my category 3 torrents, I want him to take as much of my bandwidth as he can handle, forget 1 and 2.

 

I really think that algorithms based on a set of 3 or 5 "Intent Categories" could be much more accurate, more intuitive and allow for the genuinely  large scope of what "is on the torrent network"

[DreadWingKnight]

Duplicate - per-label rules.