Trying to understand "Stalled" Status
Trying to understand "Stalled" Status
So a file I was needing is showing as 9 seeds, 5 peers, but its stalled.
Why is that? And what does it mean for me other than I can't grab it. Is there something I can do on my end, or is it on the other side of things?
I've just cut the cord, so if these questions are basic, I apologize, I am just now learning a lot of this stuff
In qbit click on the stalled torrent and look for "last time seen complete" if it says "never" it means the file is dead. None of the seeders have the last bit of the file and the seeders are other people waiting for somebody to complete the file. If this happens just delete and restart from a different source.
Edit: This applies to files that have started downloading then stalled out later. If your download is still at 0% you have a separate issue.
I have noticed that healthy torrents stall when the ISP closes the port I was using in the end. Several torrent clients have the option to check if the port is open or closed, and also another option to randomize the port at startup.
QBittorrent and Transmission have an option to anonymize or have the data encrypted, and that seems to make a difference for me when downloading using my employers ISP.
Using your... employer's ISP?
grabs popcorn
"why pay for a vpn to hide my ip when I can just use an ip that isn't mine" --that dude, probably
I have a VPN, and I checks for ipleak's before I ever grab anything. I also have Qbit forced to go through my VPN. I am not sure how to do the Anonymous downloading
I will look into the tools section again
Does your VPN provider allow port forwarding? That's probably the answer to this. Forward a port through the VPN provider and set the qBit listening port to the same.
The seeders and leechers number is pulled from trackers (I think?) but doesn't accurately represent the numbers available to you unless you have port forwarding set up properly.
Edit: just my 2 cents if your provider doesn't offer port forwarding, I use AirVPN and it's excellent. Great speeds and it offers everything I need. My only complaint is that the website is confusing.
I am not sure how to do the Anonymous downloading. I will look into the tools section again
It's in the advanced section, if I remember right. https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/Anonymous-Mode
Depends on where you got the torrent, but those seeders might actually be just wrong reports by the tracker. It has happened to me as well. I've left torrents for months just to see if it will eventually start downloading... nope, just sitting there, idle.
Can't say what the real reason behind this is, but my best guess is some bots are reporting wrong info via DHT and/or the trackers. Why? Have no idea, your guess is as good as mine 🤷.
I added in more trackers by finding the same file on few other servers, that seems to have resolved it for one of the files I need. But not the second one. First one should be done now in 57 minutes. The other is showing it DLing, but the ETA is infinity lol
Yeah, be careful relying on status messages from trackers, most are actually not that reliable and may misreport. Have had it happen on occasion as well.
Are there any easy ways to auto purge stalled torrents (either after a certain amount of time, or if they’ve never seen a complete copy after some time?) I have most of the *arr suite and use qbittorrent. I recently installed qbit_manage, but I’m not sure how to use it yet.
You can write a python script to interact with Qbittorrent as it has an API. I wrote one to delete stalled torrents and another one to set them to the lowest priority (so they don't fill up the download queue). If anyone is interested im happy to share the code. Whichever one I chose just runs every 30 mins or so using windows task scheduler
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You can write a python script to interact with Qbittorrent as it has an API. I wrote one to delete stalled torrents and another one to set them to the lowest priority (so they don't fill up the download queue). If anyone is interested im happy to share the code. Whichever one I chose just runs every 30 mins or so
You can write a python script to interact with Qbittorrent as it has an API. I wrote one to delete stalled torrents and another one to set them to the lowest priority (so they don't fill up the download queue). If anyone is interested im happy to share the code. Whichever one I chose just runs every 30 mins or so
Something that has happened to me is that I had set the network interface in qBit but the the interface that my VPN used had changed (disabled and enabled) and the interface in qBit didn't actually exist anymore. Kind of a niche issue, but yeah.