Aiii! I have some rare torrents with only a few active seeders, but I can only seed about 8 torrents at a time due to my very slow server. If I try to seed more, Jellyfin doesn't work properly.

Currently, I select a few torrents to seed for a few days, and then I switch to new ones. However, I feel bad for those who need to download torrents with only a few or no seeders while I have them but not actively seeding. I could activate these "dead" torrents, but I don't want to waste my bandwidth by not seeding most of the time.

Is there a way to automatically detect and activate demanded torrents with no active seeders? While deactivating running torrents which don't are in need of seeding?

top 3 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] hetzlemmingsworld 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There is several feature requests for this already, you may upvote: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/9063

Here is an idea what one can do to reduce seeding of a high peer count torrents:

if you have some paused complete torrents, make sure to label these to reflect the reason for pausing
unpause all complete torrents
disable limit of number of actively seeding torrents (queuing) to make all torrents actively seeding (this will update seeder counts, longer to wait = possibly better?)
select to display only Seeding state torrents
sort all according to the Seeder count by clicking the column header
select all with high amount of seeders (lets say 10+) by clicking first one, holding Shift key, click last one), right click and set them label "High seeder count torrents tmp paused 2025-04" and then pause these torrents.

-> You end up seeding only low seeded torrents. After several months or a year, you can repeat the process.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

You can put them up at the top but set it so that stalled torrents don't count towards your max active number. So if someone is peering off you, they will be active but if not, those further down the list will become active.

[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

honestly you shouldn't have to think about seeding at all. these things should take care of it gracefully. this will probably be of interest to you in june when its slated to be ready.