Seeding, sort of...

[EricBJ]

Please excuse if this is a dumb question, but I just can't seem to figure it out.

You've finished downloading a number of torrents and all that's left is to let them seed until they finish, in this case, at 150%.

While the seeding is going on, I noticed that some torrents are seeding and some are queued for seeding. Then I notice that a seeding torrent switches, becoming a queued to seed torrent and a queued torrent starting seeding.

I watched this for a while and they all seem to switch back and forth quite regularly.

How does uTorrent decide which ones to switch and why?

Is this part of the answer? I did notice that after leaving them to their work, that the ratios seem to be all growing fairly evenly. Is this by design?

How can you tell that I have really too much time on my hands and I'm very curious?

Eric

[Snapphane]

I'm not sure, but I think it has to do with the activity of the torrents. If there aren't any active leechers on torrent A, it gets cued while a cued torrent becomes active.

However, there is a way µtorrent monitors activity. Downloads get a number, 1;2;3 and so on. Highest number gets first priority. After downloading you can see that they have a * on them. That means they haven't reach their seeding goal. This goal is 1 as standard I think. Torrents with * has priority over torrents that lack the *.