Thanks to this Lemmy I entered the magic world of private trackers, and now the list of torrents I keep seeding is growing by the day. How can I detect when the number of torrents is detrimental to the functioning of the network? What is a reasonable ball park estimate of active (even if “dormant”) torrents?

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I believe most clients allow you to limit the upload rate so I would set that to something that is less than your max upload rate so that it almost never causes an issue. The limit of torrents it more limited by your network and what your computer can handle.

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Yep. Some torrents are low bandwidth and you can have a lot. Sometimes it seems you’re connecting to an AWS server and all of the sudden you’re saturated.

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Usually that isn’t a limiting factor so it’s not something you have to worry about. You can technically leave everything unlimited except for Global Connections and Upload/Download bandwidth, those are really where you’d want to set limits if necessary. Your torrent client is capable of auto managing everything else.

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(network wise) it isn’t about number of active torrents but the amount of active connections you have in total, which is very dependent on your router, isp, vpn. but usually if they aren’t shit, and especially on a private tracker you’ll run into other bottlenecks like bandwidth, io, or whatever

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It depends, but the weakest link will likely be whatever is performing NAT.

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For private trackers Im happy if many torrents are active. Just limit download speed a bit so you dont nuke your normal browsing

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