Seeding a torrent that has no demand
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Hey,
I'm sorry if that is a common question, I'm new at this and didn't find an answer in the FAQ or similar one in the forum's search engine.I've downloaded a freeleech torrent and immediately started seeding it. For the first two hours or so, it had a good demand and seeded about 20% of the torrent itself, but afterwards, probably because the freeleech has ended, the uploading stopped and there have been no demand at all.
At the time of writing this post I've been seeding for 39 hours total, which means that for 37 hours I didn't upload a thing.
Now I'm not familiar with the etiquette or how seeding works, but is there a point in continuing to seed it? I'm worried that it takes resources from my computer that I could use for other things (plus I'm already seeding two more torrents, one from this site and one not, so they are also taxing my computer). Then again, I've heard that if there is no demand then it won't take any bandwidth (but still it means that the computer searches for peers and keeps running this program, no?).Thanks in advance
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Hi–
First off, it's very refreshing to hear questions about "how am I a good contributor to the site?" rather than "how can I get as much out of this as I can?" Ultimately, of course, you get as much out as you put in, but I digress.
Here's what I do for "no leecher" torrents, and why: If a torrent has nobody leeching it, I'll keep it for a few days because someone might come along who hasn't checked into the site recently and want the material. If there are still a large number of other seeders, I might delete it earlier.
If I'm the only person seeding it, I tend to hang on a bit longer, because it I delete the torrent, then it's "dead" on the system and nobody can get it.
As for taxing resources, I don't think having a "no leecher" torrent staying active is a drain on the gt.ru site, but a moderator can weigh in here and correct me as appropriate. As for whether it's taxing your computer, I tend to think not. With a Windows machine you can go to the task manager and see how much memory and processor is being used by your torrent client...most likely, it's not very much, and you have plenty of resources left for other applications. It might be interesting to do a test, and compare the resources before and after deleting a bunch of unused torrents.
One other consideration is whether a torrent is consuming one of your allocated/limited-by-the-system download slots: If you have selected only some of the files in a torrent to download (not all of them), even after those files complete and your torrent client shows 100% completed, the system will still show you as downloading this torrent, because you haven't captured all of it. If you find that you can't start downloading from a new torrent because you've reached your cap, you can fix this by deleting torrents where you've only snatched some of the files. Note that it can take the tracker up to 30 minutes (I think) to recognise that you've deleted the partial torrent and then let you start the new one.
I hope this helps. Welcome to the site, and happy viewing ;D
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There won't be much demand for a torrent a day after the freeleech ends and even if there were, there are likely to be a lot of seeders. However, there are plenty of torrents with only one or two seeders. Occasionally someone will download them. Part of what makes a torrent site useful is being able to download torrents that aren't currently popular, whether it is older classic films on a site like thepiratebay or specific fetish porn on sites like gt.ru.
If you are keeping the video on your computer anyway, it doesn't require any significant resources to continue seeding it, except that when someone actually downloads it from you, it uses internet bandwidth.
When I am the only seeder or one of just a few seeders of a torrent and I no longer want to keep the video, I usually make it freeleech to give it a better chance to survive.
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Hi–
First off, it's very refreshing to hear questions about "how am I a good contributor to the site?" rather than "how can I get as much out of this as I can?" Ultimately, of course, you get as much out as you put in, but I digress.
Here's what I do for "no leecher" torrents, and why: If a torrent has nobody leeching it, I'll keep it for a few days because someone might come along who hasn't checked into the site recently and want the material. If there are still a large number of other seeders, I might delete it earlier.
If I'm the only person seeding it, I tend to hang on a bit longer, because it I delete the torrent, then it's "dead" on the system and nobody can get it.
As for taxing resources, I don't think having a "no leecher" torrent staying active is a drain on the gt.ru site, but a moderator can weigh in here and correct me as appropriate. As for whether it's taxing your computer, I tend to think not. With a Windows machine you can go to the task manager and see how much memory and processor is being used by your torrent client...most likely, it's not very much, and you have plenty of resources left for other applications. It might be interesting to do a test, and compare the resources before and after deleting a bunch of unused torrents.
One other consideration is whether a torrent is consuming one of your allocated/limited-by-the-system download slots: If you have selected only some of the files in a torrent to download (not all of them), even after those files complete and your torrent client shows 100% completed, the system will still show you as downloading this torrent, because you haven't captured all of it. If you find that you can't start downloading from a new torrent because you've reached your cap, you can fix this by deleting torrents where you've only snatched some of the files. Note that it can take the tracker up to 30 minutes (I think) to recognise that you've deleted the partial torrent and then let you start the new one.
I hope this helps. Welcome to the site, and happy viewing ;D
Hey,
Thank you for the kind words! I admit that I didn't used to be a seeder (in my defense I young and stupid), but aside from how easy it is to seed, if I'm a part of a community I want to behave good (especially considering the difficulty of obtaining the goods here).Anyhow, I can know how many seeders are out there by looking at the number of the swarm in the seeders line on bittorrent, right? If that's true then I have 45 other people with me, so I'll follow your advice and give it a day or two more.
For the taxination, you're probably right. It's just my computer acts up even though it's less than 2 months old so I'm paranoid.Thanks for your help, and once again for your good words! ;D
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There won't be much demand for a torrent a day after the freeleech ends and even if there were, there are likely to be a lot of seeders. However, there are plenty of torrents with only one or two seeders. Occasionally someone will download them. Part of what makes a torrent site useful is being able to download torrents that aren't currently popular, whether it is older classic films on a site like thepiratebay or specific fetish porn on sites like gt.ru.
If you are keeping the video on your computer anyway, it doesn't require any significant resources to continue seeding it, except that when someone actually downloads it from you, it uses internet bandwidth.
When I am the only seeder or one of just a few seeders of a torrent and I no longer want to keep the video, I usually make it freeleech to give it a better chance to survive.
Hey,
Thanks for the advice! If I looked at it correctly, there are 45 more people seeding with me, so I'll give it a day or two more.
One of the reasons I'm a bit stressed is because my computer acts up even though it's less than two months old, so I'm a bit paranoid, and this is a torrent I'm not going to save all of it's files after the seeding (it's about 25 videos at different lengths), so this was the one on thin ice. But since it's not taxing as you say, I'll do make the effort of giving it a bit more. -
One of the reasons I'm a bit stressed is because my computer acts up even though it's less than two months old, so I'm a bit paranoid
That is frustrating but unlikely to have anything to do with torrenting unless you downloaded a malicious file. There have been some reported on this site, but as far as I know, no standard video file types were involved.