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?
So far I’ve only run into this with public torrents. Most of the time all my private torrents see little to no traffic. Its probably not the best idea to try and seed everything on the front page of a tracker, but older torrents which would have to be searched for are probably cool to just seed 24/7 without them competing over each other.
(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
I’m not an expert, but I’ve had hundreds of torrents seeding and never had a problem.
I’m currently seeding like 50+ torrents across 2 different private trackers. Have each torrent limited to like 500 connections and I forget what my global is ATM. Only time I ever ran into issues was Hogwarts from a public tracker which was able to saturate my network. Upload like a tb in a week then got an email from my ISP and called that good. Got a 10 ratio on a public tracker which is probably better than 99% of people who use them 😂
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.
