[Libtorrent-devel] REQ: per-torrent throttling

[Goran]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:11:09 -0400 (EDT) Wes Morgan <morganw at chemikals.org> wrote:

Hi.

> I would like to see the ability to throttle upload/download speeds on a 
> per-torrent basis. I have a lot of both upstream bandwidth that sometimes 
> causes enormous share ratios (> 20) on large downloads that are coming 
> slowly. Under most circumstances, I don't mind, but it can cause problems 
> taking away available bandwidth from other torrents that have a share 
> ratio < 1.0.
> 
> Perhaps other features such as an enforced upload/download rate ratio per 
> torrent -- ie, upload rate limited to 1.5x the download rate.

Try experimenting with torrent priorities and see if that helps at least
somewhat.
 
> Also, why does rtorrent seem to change the peer list when a torrent is 
> completed, no longer showing other seeders. Is that to reduce the number 
> of connections?

It reconnects to a tracker, and yes, it disconnects from seeders as there's
little point in connecting to them if your download is done.  I have missed
this functionality when I switched from bittornado, but nowadays I almost
never need it (although it would sometimes be useful to know how many
people there are in total - both seeders and leechers).

        Goran