Torrent queuing not working as intended.

[wind77]

qBittorrent & operating system versions

qBittorrent: 4.4.2 (64 bit)
Operating system: Manjaro, kernel 5.17.1.3
Qt: 6.2.4
libtorrent-rasterbar: 2.0.5.0

What is the problem?

I used RSS to fetch and auto download torrents.
But since v4.4.2, the torrents downloaded, were not started.

As can seen from above, only 8 torrents are active, while more torrents are queueing.
My settings are as follow:

20 active downloads are allowed, and slow torrents are excluded from the count.
But no, qBT v4.4.2 only allow 8 torrents.
Is there any new / additional settings in v4.4.2 that override the current setting?

Steps to reproduce

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Additional context

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Log(s) & preferences file(s)

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[nokti]

Setting Maximum active torrents to ∞ should solve your problem.

[wind77]

Setting Maximum active torrents to ∞ should solve your problem.

Is there any reason to believe that the app would recognise ∞ correctly, but not any other number?

[nokti]

Since you already set max ul (5) and max dl (20), you can afford to set max torrents to ∞ imo, you'll never have more than 25 active torrents. Try it and see if it works better.

[wind77]

Appreciate your suggestion.
In my usage scenario, setting unlimited for dl, could result in downloading torrents of multiple TB at the same time.
It would be taxing on my download HDD, increase download time per torrent, and causing further issues.
Further, since I have limited ul bandwidth, the share ratio would take infinite time to reach, due to the fact that the bandwidth would need to be shared among infinite torrents.

So, I rather see a solution to this torrent queuing issue, than finding a temporary bypass.

[nokti]

setting unlimited for dl

I never said you should do that. Leave it at 20 like you did. Only tweek Max active torrents, the third setting, to ∞. If you do:

• Max active dl: 20
• Max active ul: 5
• Max active torrents: ∞

You'll never have more than 25 active torrents at any given time.

[wind77]

• Max active dl: 20
• Max active ul: 5
• Max active torrents: ∞

I tried setting:
Max active dl: 20
Max active ul: 5
Max active torrents: 999

And yup, those torrents in queue, get started.
So your method works.

And I wonder if these settings, are intended to work this way, or this is merely a workaround?

[nokti]

And I wonder if these settings, are intended to work this way, or this is merely a workaround?

I believe that's how it's intended to work. It's different from µTorrent, when I switched to qBit I was also a bit confused. "Max active torrents" means torrents are ready to seed, but they may just be idle if there's no one leeching from you.

To get ∞ just go down one step below 0, using the little down arrow. It used to be called "-1" but a while back they relabeled it "∞".

[AndrewDDavis]

Thanks for this discussion -- I had the same confusion around how the queue was working. In the webUI, I couldn't get it to accept "∞" in max active torrents, but -1 seemed to do the trick.

Perhaps this can be considered a documentation issue? In a quick look, I couldn't find any documentation for the torrent queuing options.

[uggima]

Ah yes, thanks for the information. It was working perfectly then had the same issue pop up after accidentally removing a line ending in the config, replacing the line ending it later (after a restart) did not fix the issue.
Don't use RSS and running qbittorrent-nox 4.1.5