Comments on How to set up torrent scheduling on Linux
Today we will take a look on the methods that Linux users can follow in order to set up a scheduler for their torrent downloads. This can be useful for people who want to take advantage of their computer while they are not using it, like during the nighttime for example. This way, large portions of huge files can be downloaded without delaying your work activities, or interrupting/undermining your media consumption.
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I had been using Transmission for a very long time. I was tweaking some parameter in the advanced setting a couple of weeks ago and all of a sudden it started making thousands of dialog boxes and brought down my xfce session. Every time I try to start it I get the same problem. I suppose I need to clear out the config file for it but instead I downloaded qBittorrent and it works fine.
I liked the article but I'm hoping to see something about how to make .torrent files, and magnet files, host them, and then monitor the downloads. Currently there are far too many companies and individuals who don't use torrents. So when you want to download some big piece of software you have to do it all at once. And on the other end it might cost you a lot to host files because of the bandwidth. I think a few articles on this would greatly help the community. Just look at distrowatch.com and then look at the top 100. About half of the top ten use torrents. Then it falls back to http/ftp for the other 90. You'd think that if they could put together a distro they could put up a torrent! So this knowledge is certainly useful.
Probably it's more efficient to change router settings (in the routers where that's possible) by lowering the priority of the torrent traffic (identified by the ports it's used).
When I see "scheduler" I think of scheduling the start of one torrent after another (specified) torrent finishes. That way I can download torrents 1 at a time rather than having 5 torrents each at 20%. Deluge does not seem to offer this.