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0 pointsanacrolix1y ago0 comments

For the regular case, 5-10 seeders will hold up an entire torrent indefinitely and without any issues. The contribution leechers make drops off very quickly if good seeders exist.

My algorithm did favour the best peers (both upload and download) but a few years ago switched to a "seeded" ordering to prevent bad behaviour clients dumping or starving new peers.

The garbage uploaders are not an issue. You can isolate peers to pieces and remove them with certainty, or use a technique called smartban which uncovers bad peers very quickly.

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ratorx1y ago

Sure, I didn’t mean to suggest that it was impossible to handle, just that it was an edge case that you needed to explicitly handle and which a minimal implementation of the protocol might be likely to leave out.

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