Comments on: Which Bittorrent client should I use with Torrentflux?

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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:01:01 +0000

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By: My seedbox speeds have slowed down. Why?

My seedbox speeds have slowed down. Why? — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:41:41 +0000

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New seedboxes are in — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:04:16 +0000

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By: Demonik

Demonik — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:55:08 +0000

In TorrentFlux, I’ve noticed that when switching between BT clients, I’m able to select/change the number of ‘Max Upload Connections’ for a torrent on-the-fly when using the BitTornado client. I once thought this was the best client to optimize TF; to manage specific torrents with high/low peer counts, but it has an adverse effect on the seedbox.

Now, after much experimentation, I realize it’s best to use Transmission, but manage the ‘Max Connections / Max. Upload Connections’ through the Admin options in the seedbox. Server load is now great, even when seeding well over 20 torrents simultaneously.

To conclude, right you are, Admin – Transmission is by far the best client to use in TF. Thanks!!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:38:46 +0000

Great question. We have observed that on one of our seedbox servers with 150 megs of ram, each Transmission instance starts out using about 2% of the memory. 3% with a few peers, 4% with 5 or 6 peers, 5% with 12 peers and so on. You should be able to run 10 or 20 Transmission torrents without breaking a sweat. We have seen people successfully run 40 or more torrents – especially if they are just for archival purposes without many peers.

On the other hand a single instance of BitTornado with a bunch of peers can quickly chew up 35% or 45% of the memory.

So yes, with Transmission, you can seed a lot of torrents, and you can seed even more if they have less peers.

By: Transmission

Transmission — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:02:24 +0000

So, if I wanted to seed many torrents for archival purposes with 3 peers each, how many torrents can I expect to run on Transsmission without using swap versus Bittornado? Does more peer connections take up memory? If I only had two peers per torrent, could I seed even more torrents?