rc8, prioritize seeding torrents

[Onip]

Imagine this scenario:
5 just added torrents.
With a cap of 3 active torrent max the first three begin downloading. I'd like that when one of theese finishes then it would go seeding and stay active until seeding ratio in preferences is reached (or until I manually pause it).

Currently when a downloading torrent finishes then the 'to be seeded' one just pauses and another download starts.

Can you help me?

[loki]

In the queue preferences it has total number of active torrents, downloading torrents and seeding torrents. Set the active torrents to 5 downloading torrents to 3 and seeding torrents to 3... I believe that would work.

[Onip]

no way.

It just started some waiting to start downloadng torrents.
There should be a way to prioritize to be seeded torrents over to download ones, it is in the spirit of p2p.

[andar]

no way.

It just started some waiting to start downloadng torrents.
There should be a way to prioritize to be seeded torrents over to download ones, it is in the spirit of p2p.

Why don't you just do something like this?

max downloads 3
max seeds -1
max active -1

This will run unlimited amount of seeds but only allow 3 downloads at a time. You can set the max seeds variable to whatever you want to limit the number of seeds to.

[Onip]

thanks, but too many seeds equals too few band each.

[andar]

thanks, but too many seeds equals too few band each.

Then limit the seeds.

[Onip]

I've already done that, it was my first try.
My config is
max active 3
max down 2
max seed 2

but it always start a new download instead of finish seeding old ones.
maybe I should open a ticket in the bugtracker for a feature request?

[andar]

I've already done that, it was my first try.
My config is
max active 3
max down 2
max seed 2

but it always start a new download instead of finish seeding old ones.
maybe I should open a ticket in the bugtracker for a feature request?

If you have those settings, then what will happen is you will have 2 downloads and 1 seed.. If you only have 1 download, then you will have 2 seeds and if you have no downloads you will only have 2 seeds. If you want to have 2 downloads and 2 seeds, then either set the max active to 4 or -1.

Are you saying that if there are 2 seeds, you don't want any downloads to happen?

[Onip]

I just would like my queue to be respected. To me (and to many others) a torrent is finished when you have seeded enough.
example
let's start with an 'empty' deluge and add torrents a,b,c,d,e. Due to bandwidth limitations i have only 3 torrents enabled and 2 downloading.
So torrents a and b would be started.
At some point either a or b would finish download (say a), so a would go seeding and c will be started (3 torrents working).
At the current deluge status (or maybe at my deluge knowledge status) when b finishes downloading then it would go in the seeding queue and d would start and either a or b would be stopped by deluge. This is not what I want. I'd like deluge to start d only when either a or b reach the seeding ratio i put in the preferences and thus get stopped (and removed). In other words don't start a new download until there's some seeding happening and no slot (3 max) is available.