Is there any downside to leaving something seeding indefinitely? Typically I just leave all my torrents seeding whenever I'm done 24/7 (whenever the VPN is on) but is there any detrimental issues to seeding too much?

It doesn't bother me I was just curious if there was ever a such thing as too much seeding since I have like 20+ things seeding and maybe one thing downloading.

Speed isn't an issue since I have gigabit internet.

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[–] Xianshi@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

No with a VPN you are good. Sharing is caring.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bless you.

I deliberately leave stuff that's been a bastard to get seeding as long as physically possible. We've all felt the pain. Don't spread it.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 4 months ago

Exactly. There's little point in keep seeding popular torrents on public trackers (it's a different story for private trackers though).

But if you have a rare torrent that has been difficult to complete, please please keep seeding it for as much as possible!

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's no such thing as too much seeding.

Well, maybe the 85tb of Ubuntu 24.04 I've done is too much, but I mean, whatever.

(I've got basically everything I've downloaded in the last 7 years seeding, some 6000 torrents. qBittorrent isn't the most happy with this, but it's still working, if using a shit-ton of RAM at this point.)

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

You’re a hero.

[–] butter@midwest.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is especially useful for Books. Small torrents are so hard to find. I perma seed books/audiobooks and copy to my slskd directory because they're so hard.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is there an easy way to permaseed in qBittorent?

[–] butter@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

Permaseed is the default. To disable perma-seed would be to set an upload limit, like a time amount or a ratio.

I run a ratio of 2:1 for most stuff