Hi peeps,

been reading up on the latest branches of rtorrent and not yet in the process of upgrading to 0.9.0. That said, in several versions of rtorrent there is the option to superseed new torrents which is especially handy if you're the uploader and expecting a lot of concurrent connections from early leechers.

Ofcourse, this will/can cause slowdowns for existing torrents or torrents with piece-sizes higher than 4MB but in general superseeding will allow a 50% increase of connectability-options for new torrents over the default values you have set in the .rtorrent.rc for general seeding.



But for the love of whatever is dear to me, I cannot find a document that describes two things and I hope someone has a decent explanation for me:

  1. Is there an option in .rtorrent.rc that will always superseed any torrent added, regardless if my rtorrent is the first or tenth completed client on the tracker?
  2. Is there a performance-issue predictable, at some point or form, if I always superseed, regardless if the torrent has a lot of connections for the first 10 minutes or the next 10 hours?

Hope someone can shed some light on this.