Torrent users risk saturating networks and filling download drives
People running torrent clients on shared or space-constrained computers can find that downloads disrupt other network use or fill a drive before queued downloads finish. Requests for bandwidth caps and minimum-free-space limits point to controls missing in some clients; without them, users may have to monitor queues and manage them manually. Shared WebUI users also want to know who added each torrent.
For household and homelab torrent operators. Mentioned from Jun 2015 to Jun 2026 on GitHub and Hacker News.
9 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
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Just woke up to my computer freaking out because for some reason 200 new things were uploaded last night. DL cache drive was completely full. Every other client I use has a "leave minimum space available" or "don't download if available space <" option. Don't see why we can't here
The end result is: very few (or none) of the torrents have actually completed, although there are enough seeders and many of the files would surely fit on the partition. So unless I monitor/handle manually this process, I can't seem to really have a sequential queue of automatically completing torrents
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