[xavier242]

Originally Posted by wzbw88

It seems that suddenly a lot of torrents have been turned to inactive.
Was this a deliberate decision to stabilize the site and to reduce the load?

I got the impression when deciding to never let torrents get inactive that this aspect is/was not crucial for the increasing problems with the site.

Anyway I hope this is not the end of TTD....

U2Lynne and/or Moderators may be moving some to inactive. It doesn't matter as the torrents can't be seeded with the current software and hardware. Datahound and others tried to seed the site. It worked for a while but after a year it began crashing the tracker and site.

The tracker was not designed to handle so much traffic. Datahound's seeding alone generated about 20 announces per second on average, and with the rest of the members it maybe averaged double that. It possibly had peak demands of maybe 150 per second. I can't see a PHP tracker and spinning harddisks handling such a load.

With one of the compiled trackers (Ocelot), 150 per second is nothing. So whatever happens, TTD will either have to use a compiled tracker (and SSDs), or somehow reduce the load (fewer torrents and/or members). Dime chose to limit the number of seeded torrents to 30 per member (60 for VIP).

An alternative would be to use file hosting sites and not bittorrent. It would create new issues but seems to work better for other sites.