Originally Posted by masonos

@gergo, that's not an easy question to answer because it primarily has to do with your seedbox bandwidth and hdd speeds.
Normally seedbox companies have these preset on their optimal values and you don't need to mess with them. Now if you have a dedicated server where you installed rtorrent yourself i guess you will need some trial and error to get the best values.

I am using a share seedbox, but it looks for me, which tells me the CPU load of the seedbox, and it looks like for me, that if I lower the number of max opened files, then the CPU load decreases and sometimes the uploading speed increases. My goal will be to keep tons of torrent in seed, but actually only make upload trafic on a high (more, than 300KB/s) upload speed ones. That way there won't be too much upload slots, which slows down the process. Also, it would be a really good thing, if I could somehow report to the trackers, that I am still seeding the torrents, but not do any traffic for a time, while am I seeding the newly downloaded torrent. That will significantly increase the efficiency of the seedbox. But if I simply just stop them, then they will just produce HNRs and won't generate bonus points.