WebTorrent stops seeding after some time
qBittorrent & operating system versions
qBittorrent 5.3beta1 Operating System: Chromeos (Crostini) QT: 6.11.2 libtorrent-rasterbar: 2.1.1.0
What is the problem?
I am using qBittorrent5.3beta1 App image on Chromeos Crostini for WebTorrent seeding. I have about 125 torrents seeding with default settings. After about 3-5 hrs of constant seeding, which works perfectly, qBitTorrent WebTorrent stops seeding to instant.io, but normal UDP downloads still work. I was having similar issues on Windows with a custom libtorrent 2.1 build, but I can't confirm that the bug is not exclusive to Chromeos.
Edit: As I've been troubleshooting this bug on various operating systems for several years, I recall WebTorrent Desktop has a similar issue.
Steps to reproduce
- Use qbittorrent5.3beta1 appimage in a Linux terminal (maybe not only chromeos)
- test to make sure torrents are seeding in WebTorrent
- wait 3-24 hrs
- test instant.io again, they don't download
- confirm non-WebTorrent UDP downloads still work
Additional context
Edit 2: To troubleshoot I deleted tracker.openwebtorrent.com from my client side webtorrent implementation, in case this was a tracker issue, but tracker.webtorrent.dev doesn't download at all (the client announces and qBitTorrent never sees the peer, even when it's tier 0 and the only torrent running).
Log(s) & preferences file(s)
Default settings, only changed download/torrent dir
Source: qbittorrent/qBittorrent