Torrent isn't auto managed yet stops when reaching ratio 1, refuses to resume (need force start behaviour)

[OmegaPhil]

I have an organised system of labels with Queue settings applied to stop seeding at ratio 1. Occasionally a torrent that belongs to a particular category/label comes along but needs permanent seeding - in the uTorrent days I would have Force Started the torrent, but deluge doesn't have this.

Please can I have an equivalent ability to force start a torrent - override the 'Stop seed at ratio' setting or similar - since label is controlling this, I have put this feature request against this plugin.

Thanks

[Calum]

​http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Faq#DoesDelugehaveanequivalenttoForceStart

[OmegaPhil]

I have done this, but it makes no difference - I assumed the label functionality was overriding normal management.

[Calum]

Did you check queue settings in the label options?

[OmegaPhil]

Auto Managed is off as standard with the queue settings I use.

I have had a review of how I configure Deluge in general - I think originally some years ago, I found setting Auto Managed to Off made no difference (torrents were still getting paused etc, even when I wanted them permaseeding) - back then I had 10 active torrents allowed, but obviously wanted unlimited permaseeding torrents as I saw fit.

So to work around this, I used labels to remove management (Auto Managed off) and enforce permaseeding.

Nowadays I'm on a VDSL2 connection, so I don't really need an active torrents limit... because of this, instead of hacking around with label settings, I am going to use 100 active torrents (essentially unlimited) and set Auto Managed to off for those that need to permaseed.

I'll see how it goes - historically this was probably an issue with Auto Managed in general.

[OmegaPhil]

OK, I have done this for a week with no issues - so obviously whatever it was before that pushed me to doing this is no longer relevant now - resolving invalid.

[OmegaPhil]

Right, the real problem I was running from is back - once a torrent that isn't automanaged reaches ratio 1 (which is my global seeding limit), its stopped, and refuses to resume. This is why I then moved to labels to enforce permaseeding.

[OmegaPhil]

Finally understand why... torrents have a per-torrent 'Stop seed at ratio' option that isn't exposed by the right-click menu, but is available in the Options tab. As soon as I killed that off, I could resume the torrent. At this stage, I don't even know if Auto Managed matters.

In terms of the 'bug', perhaps this is a usability issue... not something I'm going to complain about anyway. Pays to study software.

Would it be worth me adding this option to the right-click menu?

[Calum]

I guess for completeness it would be worth doing. I think a sub-menu with Disable|Enable... and the Enable is a popup for ratio value input.

While you are looking at that code you could see if you can fix #2401

[OmegaPhil]

OK - depending on exactly what happens, this work might need to wait as I shift it to a dedicated slot.

[OmegaPhil]

Change in ​https://github.com/OmegaPhil/deluge/commit/553c6ef1d70ebce39a5209a1caf0beec2a191d42 - further work pending Cas feedback

[OmegaPhil]

Feedback from Cas:

Lambdas to proper functions Remove errbacks - unnecessary (no need to do something specialised, error will be emitted from twisted regardless)

[Calum]

Fixed in develop: [ea7ef950a3]

[Calum]

Milestone renamed