Best bittorrent client for huge collection?
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Hello, gaytorrent.ru members. I've been lurking here for years, but need some advice.
I try to keep all my downloads online and available. This hasn't worked well with uTorrent. (I have over 10,000.) It crashes once or twice a day. The files are also spread across 2 internal drives, and 4 external USB drives. The USB interface on this windows PC goes berserk on occasion.
Any advice?
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10,000? That makes for a hairy hell, harryhell.
Vuze is another client (using a separate forwarding port) I've used simultaneously as a backup when uTorrent is giving me grief. Maybe running another client at the same time with it's own port might help to share the load? (Hopefully without doubling the trouble.)
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Hello, gaytorrent.ru members. I've been lurking here for years, but need some advice.
I try to keep all my downloads online and available. This hasn't worked well with uTorrent. (I have over 10,000.) It crashes once or twice a day. The files are also spread across 2 internal drives, and 4 external USB drives. The USB interface on this windows PC goes berserk on occasion.
Any advice?
What are your error messages and when does it crash? Could be a problem other than the torrent software but most torrent software gets sluggish and buggy with too many torrents. Have you tried limiting the number of connections? That's the first thing I would try.
Most people with that many torrents are probably using a seedbox which eliminates any hardware or connectivity limitations.
Possible solutions might be to use advanced torrent software like hekate that was created to handle that many torrents or else run multiple instances of regular torrent software.
You might also rotate seeding between several groups of torrents but then they wouldn't be available 24/7/365.
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Hey, BearBearBear.
The crashes aren't very informative. I'd say 50% of the time the error message reports insufficient memory (this PC has 16GB). The other 50% just report that uTorrentPro has crashed.
I have been considering getting another, newer PC. So maybe do that and run a different client, as you suggest. I also have a Mac Airbook, but it is rather limited storage-wise, and is ~8 years old. Fine for vacations, but not a daily-use comp.
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10k active torrents is way too many.
If you want to keep them loaded, then turn them off in the client and turn them back on when you get a reseed request.
My laptop has 32gb of RAM, 2.5gb of internal SSD (though I don't store videos on C drive) and 10tb over 2 external HDDs can barely handle 500 active torrents.
NOTE: By "active torrents" I mean turned on in your client, whether seeding/leeching or not.
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Thanks, guys. I try to keep seeding torrents down to fewer than 4,000. I only make them active if someone requests a re-seed.
What I hate about the uTorrent crashes is that some of the files get damaged, and it takes a lot of work and organization to get them restored.
I'm an old fart, retired, but I used to be an IT Director - but I didn't learn much about torrents at that job
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Hey, BearBearBear.
The crashes aren't very informative. I'd say 50% of the time the error message reports insufficient memory (this PC has 16GB). .
Okay, that's something you should look at because there are checks you can do to make sure the memory is okay and settings you can tweak to avoid errors. That's not an uncommon error in general, so solutions exist that are not specific to torrenting, just do a search.
I also have 16 GB of RAM that was an upgrade a few years after purchasing a mid-range computer years ago and never have run into errors due to memory limitations. I have 1,500+ torrents running on Transmission and the software does take a couple of minutes to get up and running when I restart my computer but that's the only problem I've encountered and I don't think it has anything to do with RAM, just the number of torrents that have to be loaded. You're operating at a different scale, though.
