Why Do I have to Continually Nurse each Download?

[MarkAylwyn]

It doesn't happen exclusively, maybe 60-70% of the time, but if I don't interact with a download for a period of time (say 10-15 mins) it'll drop down to something like 4-30 Kbps. As soon as I select it and hit "Update tracker" it'll jump back up to whatever the torrent supports (e.g. 1-3 Mbps).

Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of an automatic download mechanism? Can someone please explain why this happens? Am I missing something with how torrents and trackers work? I'm also using DHT and am consistently connected to c. 1k nodes.

I can literally watch a single connection to an individual IP address, and as an example, it'll shoot up from 20 Kbps to 400 Kbps as soon as I hit "Update Tracker". Quite honestly, it's really super frustrating and whatever is happening when I manually click "Update Tracker" I feel really ought to happen automatically under the covers.

I spent A LOT of time researching and testing which client to use and Deluge won hands down. I particularly love being able to run it headless in daemon mode and connect to it remotely, plus the host of other features, but all that's useless if it can't do its core fundamental job properly.

Can someone please help / explain?

Cheers.

[ambipro]

It sounds like you might be using public trackers who regularly feed you outdated peers lists to inflate their seeding counts and upon updating the tracker you are fed a new list, or perhaps the DHT table as a source.

Public torrents are typically inflated many times over for seed count and this is just the issue with using public torrent trackers, if you were to use private torrent trackers you would not experience this sort of thing as they don't artificially inflate their peer lists.

[MarkAylwyn]

It sounds like you might be using public trackers who regularly feed you outdated peers lists to inflate their seeding counts and upon updating the tracker you are fed a new list, or perhaps the DHT table as a source.

Public torrents are typically inflated many times over for seed count and this is just the issue with using public torrent trackers, if you were to use private torrent trackers you would not experience this sort of thing as they don't artificially inflate their peer lists.

Thanks for the explanation!

So I've noticed that Magnet links embed the trackers. Does that mean I would have to change the trackers set for each download or is there a way to set that globally within Deluge? I'm pretty new to torrenting... I don't really know the difference between public and private trackers. How do I find a list of private trackers? I implicitly figured any individual download had a finite set of trackers.

[MarkAylwyn]

@ambipro - And can Deluge use multiple trackers concurrently or is it still limited to the first in the list?

[ambipro]

Check out the plugins - specifically viewtopic.php?t=56921

I took over the fork of ltConfig - there is a setting in it where it with announce to all tiers and trackers, check both of them and it will use all the trackers.

[MarkAylwyn]

Awesome thank you!