Thread: Which Torrent Best client for seeding great number of torrents?

Hi there!

I started to seed the Wikileaks archive (=torrents for all files ever released by wikileaks). My problem is that each file has it's own torrent, which really makes a huge number of them. I use Linux and rtorrent, but even that becomes irresponsive, slow and unstable with more than 1000 seeding torrents - and that's not even close to the total number of files in the wikileaks archive. Of course, not all torrents are active at the same time, normally I upload to about 20-60 peers.

I played with the settings for 1.) max. open files 2.) max. open sockets. If I increase to more than ~800 sockets and ~300 files, rtorrent becomes instable and often crashes at the start (segfault).

Is there I (Linux) torrent client that can handle many torrents?

Writing this, a possible solution came to my mind (it's magic). Perhaps I could run several instances if rtorrent, each with a subset of the torrents and a distinct session directory. I would have to limit each instance to only a few upload slots (3 perhaps), but I'd be able to seed all files.

If you have any other suggestions, please let me know.



I also wonder about something else: rtorrent doesn't add certain torrent files from the archive, e.g. the collateral murder video, because it says the torrent file is faulty. Any experience with that?

Thanks for any helpful comments!

genicool

uTorrent is the best client by far when it comes to adding hundreds of torrents.

Deluge handles many torrents way better than rTorrent, so I'd try that if I were stuck with Linux. I have never tried over 1000 torrents with Deluge though. I will say this though: rTorrent should not even be considered because it becomes unusably slow when you get a ton of torrents in the client.

If you are looking to load up 1000+ torrents into one client, your best option is uTorrent+windows IMO. AFAIK this is the only way to do it, unless uTorrent wine can do it or by some miracle Deluge can do it.