Re: [opensuse] How do I seed a downloaded torrent?

Sat, 06 Oct 2007, by tcoulon@decoulon.ch:

On Saturday, 6. October 2007, John E. Perry wrote:

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Sunny wrote:

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On 10/5/07, John E. Perry wrote:

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... I'd really like to continue seeding, if someone could tell me how to do it without downloading another copy of the iso.

Stop the download in ktorrent. Remove the torrent from the list. Then open the torrent again. It will ask you where to save/download. Select the location where the iso is now. It will find it, scan it and start seed.

Thanks, that solved my problem. I also configured the file locations before I loaded the torrent, so it now does what I actually need. I think.

It took an hour or more for it to recognize tracker.opensuse.org. Now ktorrent says there are 3644 leechers, and I have only one constantly connected, who is not downloading any chunks. Occasionally I get a spurt of connections, 5 -- 10 at a time, who almost immediately disconnect after downloading a few chunks. In the past 4 hours I've seeded 9.4M over my 10+Mbps connection.

So I'm trying to contribute, but no one is accepting anything from me. Am I understanding the display correctly? Why would my available service not be used? Do I have some other problem?

Most likely a NAT of firewall setting. See if ktorrent can test these for you, as Azureus can. I have 116(3950) peers connected at the moment. Normally my upload/download ratio is 1.3, but I'm "Superseeding" now, so the seeding continues at full (1Mb) speed until I think it's enough.

Well, I am seeding both the 32 and the 64 bit version (with Azureus because ktorrent insisted on downloading everything new). I have *never* experienced bittorrent to give me a good speed. Perhaps it's because I don't have the right ports opened in my firewall, but I'm not ready to open any.

I would understand that on a Windows thingy, but on Linux *you* are in control on what apps listen to which port..

I've downloaded the isos with regular http/ftp and now seed them to help, but as you I have dozens of "fully established" machines from which only a few download anything. During the night, total upload was 1GB, while yesterday I downloaded over 8GB in 5 hours per http so....

There is probably a setting telling how many simultaneous upload connects are allowed. I have that at 5. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.20 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org