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rakshasa / rtorrent

rTorrent BitTorrent client
https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/wiki
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Seeding after Download complete #1159

Open qauff opened 2 years ago

qauff commented 2 years ago

Hey all, I'm having trouble understanding what is going on with my setup of rTorrent (version 0.9.8; with Flood UI). I'm noticing that nothing is uploading/seeding once the download of that torrent has completed.

When I check the torrent details I see this:

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Am I understanding this correctly: There are peers and seeds I could be connected to, but rtorrent isn't connecting? What configuration settings could be causing this? The documentation is not great. I'm not sure where to look. I am using the default config template in the wiki, with an extra:

method.set_key=event.download.finished,notify_me,"execute=~/.rtorrent/torrent_finished.php,$d.base_path=,$d.base_filename="

Not sure if that affects the download complete status or not, but I'm out of ideas. Anyone know where to point me so I can make seeding happen for my torrents?

kannibalox commented 2 years ago

There are peers and seeds I could be connected to, but rtorrent isn't connecting?

Even if there are peers listed, there's no guarantee that they'll actually connect to you, often for reasons outside your control. They may have marked the files for only partial downloading, or may already have connected to enough of the other 1k+ seeds to the point where their client won't try to create any more connections. There's certainly no point to connecting to other seeds, since you aren't downloading anymore.

Anyone know where to point me so I can make seeding happen for my torrents?

Having your incoming port be connectable can make a big difference, but ultimately there is no way to force even active peers to use you over other seeders. This applies to all torrent clients, not just rTorrent.