Hi. I've recently installed KTorrent on my new Linux machine, which is basically only serving torrents. I also have a few other machines hooked up in my local network so I would like to configure the amount of active torrents in KTorrent.

I tried to use the KTorrent Preferences => Downloads to configure this but it doesn't seem to work.. I've put it to max downloads 5, max seeds 5 but I've got almost 20 seeds continuously active... I could of course manually switch all of them off, apart from the last 5 or something.. But that's not really what I'm looking for of course

I've also tried bringing down the amount of connections per torrent, global connection limit, number of upload slots. Say if I put them all to 5 as well, I'll still have about 20 active seeds (obviously it wouldn't bring it down, but I thought let's give it a try).

So now my question to you is, how do I configure KTorrent to only allow a certain amount of active torrents at all times? It's probably going to lower the lag if I crack down the global connection limit, but then I've got lots of seeds going at 5 kb/s or something; sux..

Hope you can help

The maximum seeds / downloads settings are for the queue manager. If you make all your torrents QM controlled then these settings will be used

Thanks alot! Enqueueing them all worked


Uppps, just another question. When I'm using the queue manager, it doesn't go by share ratio or amount of seeds or anything. Just a pre-set list. Is this correct?

Admiral_Payne wrote:Thanks alot! Enqueueing them all worked


Uppps, just another question. When I'm using the queue manager, it doesn't go by share ratio or amount of seeds or anything. Just a pre-set list. Is this correct?

The maximum share ratio and seed time settings should be respected.

So if I put the seeding time to a few hours, and I have say 10 torrents. If I'd put max active torrents to 5, would it restart those few hours seeding time every time a torrent is restarted? Or would it just stop after it has ran those hours through all torrents?

Admiral_Payne wrote:So if I put the seeding time to a few hours, and I have say 10 torrents. If I'd put max active torrents to 5, would it restart those few hours seeding time every time a torrent is restarted? Or would it just stop after it has ran those hours through all torrents?

Once a torrent reaches it's maximum seeding time, it will stop, and the queue manager will start another one.

Is there an option to reset the seeded time when a torrent is restarted? So it would basically cycle through all torrents continuously

Admiral_Payne wrote:Is there an option to reset the seeded time when a torrent is restarted? So it would basically cycle through all torrents continuously

No