The original post: /r/torrents by /u/mrgreen4242 on 2025-01-15 21:38:21.

I am running into a problem with my seedbox and I am hoping someone might be able to help. The provider I use has a limit on outbound data (it excludes FTP and some other traffic, so it pretty much only affects torrent uploads) of 3tb.

I set a ratio limit for seeding to 1:1 for the first month so I could try and get a feel for how much data I was moving through and could set seeding ratio limits that would ensure that I had bandwidth remaining to seed torrents at the end of every month.

However, it appears that ruTorrent does not check for upload limits until AFTER a file is done downloading, and it turns out that some torrents will exceed the limit before they're completed downloading. I noticed a few such examples, but they were generally only slightly over the 100% UL/DL ratio by the time that happened and they automatically stopped seeding when the file was completed and the ratio group applied.

Last week, though, I had a file that was <1gb churn through over 2.5tb of upload before it finished downloading, eating up my entire remaining upload allocation for the month. I cannot figure out how to avoid this but it seems like it must be a solvable problem?

My provider has the option of ruTorrent or qBittorrent. I'm fine either and was only using ruTorrent because I was familiar with it. Thanks in advance!