Trans. still switches to seeding forever after download.

[kiuzeppe]

It is only set to seed forever AFTER the torrent is stopped.

It is not. At least on Snow Leopard, it changes to seed forever and keeps seeding.

[jgpp]

Just chipping in. The problem is this: When the user has set a global maximum, and that ratio has been met, that ratio should not be exceeded. Period. That's what a global setting means and I think people are getting annoyed that this appears to be flexible.

That this contradicts the function of the 'restart' button is a UI issue. Restarting seeding after this ratio has been met is DIFFERENT from restarting after some arbitrary pause, so perhaps eg. the icon could be different? eg. A little up-arrow with a status of 'seed forever'? It is not just un-pausing. It is restarting and changing a property.

I could almost put up with the current behaviour (ok, I do -- Transmission is otherwise AWESOME), and this MAY be a different bug, but with v1.75 and several builds prior, sleeping and waking my macbook causes all torrents to begin seeding AND causes the seed forever behaviour to occur for all seed-complete torrents (I always do 1.25 at least). Nett result is I occasionally have torrents that were (a) started once with a use-global ratio of 1.25; (b) were never touched again until complete; and (c) have uploaded to ratio 4.0+ with no sign of stopping, which is a bit harsh for a 9GB+ file. So yeah: baby sitting required.

Happy to do screen shots, and happy to receive any pointers on how to screen cap this.

[zyoper]

Postby zyoper » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:02 pm
In preferences/transfers/management/automatic/stop seeding ratio = 1.05

I occasionally APPLY ALL (Pause/Restart)

The problem is that when I "APPLY ALL RESTART" transmission resumes the torrent seeding that have passed 1.05

Request: I would like an additional preference "obey stop seeding ratio" so that when I apply all resume, the torrents which have already seeded to 1.05 are not resumed.


Appreciate if this can be considered.

[Lockmaster]

This issue is also an aggravation for me. In fact it is my one and only beef with Transmission. It seems the Transmission Gods have other things to do than work on such an obvious bug. In the meantime peeps, here is an easy work-around....

Before you click the Pause All button or shut down Trans, take a minute to move all your Seeding Completed torrents to the bottom of the list. Just highlight each one (you can highlight multiple items by holding the Shift key while clicking) and drag them to the bottom of the list. This will insure that when you restart, those items will get low priority and not start up again when your not paying attention. This is by no means perfect but it work for me... for now.

Possibly, they could write some code to where 1 - we could choose from within Preferences for the Seeding Completed item to be moved automatically to the bottom of the list and 2 - Fix it so that once the desired ratio is complete it will never restart unless the user overides that command by Right Clicking and choosing Resume Selected. This would reset it to Seed Forever unless the user chose another (higher) ratio. Seems simple to me but what do I know.

I may have read elsewhere in another post where someone said they would be switching to Utorrent over this issue. That would be a shame as Trans is the most Awesome program for torrents that exists (at least by my tests) - lowest in resource useage and it also seems to get the fastest results. So hear me if you're out there; don't switch, adapt and maybe if we all keep complaining or report this as an issue they will get around to fixing it. Where do we need to go to report this? Maybe I will do so.

[mitah]

Sorry for stirring up this seemingly dreaded topic, but is there a trac ticket for this, or were all the good points for changing the default behavior here for nothing.

What I'm experiencing at the moment is that if the seeding ratio is met before the download is complete, and the machine running Transmission goes to scheduled sleep, the torrent starts seeding forever as soon as the machine wakes up again. This can in no way be considered expected behavior, since I did NOT press the resume button for this specific torrent.

This seems like a simple UI problem to me, since there is a difference between pausing/resuming a torrent, and starting seeding of a torrent, there should be extra UI buttons for these 2 different tasks, instead of one button for all with a silent change of seeding ratio settings on pressing the RESUME button.

[zyoper]

Postby zyoper » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:02 pm
In preferences/transfers/management/automatic/stop seeding ratio = 1.05

I occasionally APPLY ALL (Pause/Restart)

The problem is that when I "APPLY ALL RESTART" transmission resumes the torrent seeding that have passed 1.05

Request: I would like an additional preference "obey stop seeding ratio" so that when I apply all resume, the torrents which have already seeded to 1.05 are not resumed.


Appreciate if this can be considered.

Thankyou a million times over, it seems this request was finally implemented.

You guys rock, and this continuous seeding after the ratio was reached has been my pet peev forever, and I am glad transmission finally obeys the stop seeding ratio!

You guys rock!

[tappster]

i have this problem after upgrading to 2.0 and come home to torrents that were automatically added and have been seeding and a ratio of 20 or so when my global setting is 1. what is the solution to this?

[tappster]

nope, i mean torrents that i come back to see are finished and have continued uploading waaaaay past 1.0 ratio. they have stop seeding: "seed forever" but why aren't they "global setting"? i didn't change them to seed forever!!

[trigger08]

I've started experiencing this problem lately too, apparently randomly. But after reading this thread I wonder if the problem is to due to a combination of this "feature" and the queue settings.

Simple case: preferences set to D/L with 2 active transfers and U/L with 1 active transfer. Start 2 torrents going, with the second one set to "stop seeding" at some really small ratio, such that it seeds past the ratio limit while still d/ling. The first torrent finishes d/ling and starts seeding. When the second torrent finishes d/ling it pauses to wait for a spot in the queue, but since it has already gone past the seeding ratio limit set in the inspector window, it switches to "seed forever." At some point the first torrent finishes seeding, then the second torrent starts up and proceeds to seed forever despite the fact that I intended for it to stop at the original ratio.

Do I have that sequence of events right? If so, is it possible to switch the order of decisions Transmission makes - so that it would see that the second torrent is already done seeding and should be stopped, rather than paused to wait for a slot in the seeding queue?

[SalULloyd]

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