Thread: rtorrent on a seedbox

I recently switched to rtorrent/rutorrent from deluge. It is quite a bit easier on the system.



The only problem that I am having is that it automatically stops seeding after it gets to a 2.0 ratio. I don't see any setting like that in my .rtorrent.rc file so my assumption is that it is a default.

Does anyone know what I need to do to turn this off?

Hi,
go to rtorrent setting and their you will find channel and ratio groups ...both option in the last you can find default in this option chose don't set ....
hope it will help ...

Originally Posted by lk78676

I recently switched to rtorrent/rutorrent from deluge. It is quite a bit easier on the system.

The only problem that I am having is that it automatically stops seeding after it gets to a 2.0 ratio. I don't see any setting like that in my .rtorrent.rc file so my assumption is that it is a default.

Does anyone know what I need to do to turn this off?

In UTORRENT, on a mac intel, it is in PREFERENCES under BANDWIDTH. it says, "SEEDING" AT UP DOWN RATIO. (AND A TOGGLE FOR ADJUSTING).

search your .rtorrent.rc file for a line starting with "schedule" and "stop_on_ratio" in it.

if it looks somewhat like this:
schedule = ratio,60,60,"stop_on_ratio=200,200M,2000"

then your client will stop seeding when you
. reach the ratio 2.0 (200) and have uploaded at least 200M
. or reach the ratio 20.0 (2000) and have uploaded less than 200M

This is just an example, your config may look different.

I don't have anything like that in my config. Also, I think that has changed with later versions of rtorrent. It seems like this ratio group stuff was created to replace that but it isn't very well documented that I could find.

Here is my .rtorrent.rc

Code:

# Maximum and minimum number of peers to connect to per torrent.
min_peers = 100
max_peers = 200
# Same as above but for seeding completed torrents (-1 = same as downloading)
min_peers_seed = 10
max_peers_seed = 500
# Maximum number of simultanious uploads per torrent.
max_uploads = 200
# Global upload and download rate in KiB. "0" for unlimited.
download_rate = 0
upload_rate = 0
# Default directory to save the downloaded torrents.
directory = /home/rtorrent/downloads
# Default session directory.
session = /home/rtorrent/rtorrent.session
# Watch a directory for new torrents, restart torrents that have been copied back and stop those that have been
# deleted.
schedule = watch_directory,10,10,"load_start=/home/rtorrent/torrentfiles/*.torrent"
schedule = tied_directory,10,10,start_tied=
schedule = untied_directory,10,10,close_untied=
# Close torrents when diskspace is low.
schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=100M
#Stop torrents when reaching upload ratio 
ratio.enable = no
# Port range to use for listening.
port_range = 52000-57000
# Start opening ports at a random position within the port range.
port_random = yes
# Set whetever the client should try to connect to UDP trackers.
use_udp_trackers = no
# Encryption options. This can be useful when using an ISP that uses traffic shaping.
encryption=allow_incoming,try_outgoing,enable_retry,prefer_plaintext
scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:5000
xmlrpc_dialect=i8
#DHT
dht = disable
#dht_port = 6881
peer_exchange = no

The ratio group settings are found inside the GUI, click the gear icon to get to settings, then go to Ratio Groups. In there you will see a bunch of information. If your torrents are automatically being placed into a ratio group, find out which group and change all the variables to -1

This is what you want...

I installed the ratio plugin as above. I verified that my ratio group was not set. Same problem.

I tried setting a ratio group and setting min% to be quite high. Same problem.

I installed a different version of rtorrent/libtorrent on another server. Same problem.

No matter what I do the torrents stop seeding after reaching a ratio of 2.0ish

Where did you get the package from?
I got it from Easy ruTorrent installer + Web server, FTP, Webmin (Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/More) and never had any issues at all.