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How big is too big for a bittorrent file?

Recently i downloaded a legt 320 gb of mp4 and mp3 files from a web page that i like.  They have a download option for this on their site.  After sorting it all out i made a bittorrent file of that entire directory.  I found a list of trackers on the internet so i copied them all in. (i'm using qbittorrent).  Of course i'm doing this all on a 1tb hdd. so i still have lots of space left over.  I tried to open the bittorrent i made of that 320 gb directory (took a looooong time) but when i do my little minix crashes/freezes/stops responding.  qbittorrent is an alpha version so that could be the problem there maybe.  v4.4.0alpha1.  I really don't want to make bittorrents for every mp4.  The mp3s are just audio version of the mp4s.

Anyone has experience with making their own bittorrents they could offer some insights?

Ok so i double checked the repos again and ktorrent is really the only bittorrent client we have with a gui?  Well it's stable and didn't crash when i opened homemade bittorrent so i guess that's a good thing.

Is there no stable qbittorrent?  or a gtk one that we could have in the repos please?

Seems i cant share it here to have someone test it out either...
Cat Herders of Linux

Re: How big is too big for a bittorrent file?

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Don't know the answer to this, just to let you I couldn't reply to your PM as it gave a message saying:
"User 'cat herders of linux' can not receive personal messages." Whether that's your settings or something to do with the forum idk.

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Is there no stable qbittorrent?  or a gtk one that we could have in the repos please?




There is "transmission-gtk" and "deluge-gtk"  in the artix repos.

Best regards.
We should try to be kind to everyone.....we are all fighting some sort of battle.

Re: How big is too big for a bittorrent file?

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Mostly from Windows users but from what I have heard qBittorrent 4.x.x has not been stable for everyone. qBittorrent as its name implies is written in Qt and will probably never have a GTK version. You can use a web UI like flood locally if you want to, but probably not an optimal way to do it.

I myself use transmission with trans-gui on my laptop, I mostly just leave it in the background. problem is that it has some Windows quirk and name encoding issues. the native GUI version conky60 stated will probably work better. Transmission should be light and stable, and Deluge more suited for racing with itconfig.

Re: How big is too big for a bittorrent file?

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What chunk size did you choose, or was used, when creating the torrent ?
This might well have an impact on how well your client can handle the torrent. Huge torrents should use bigger chunk sizes.

I used to use qbittorrent but it starts to do strange things when trying to handle thousands of torrents.
For quite a while I've used rtorrent with rutorrent as a browser based frontend. rutorrent needs a webserver for which I use lighttpd.
I do still use qbittorrent to actually create torrents as it has a handy calculator for the chunk sizes. I aim at around 1000-1500 chunks.