Is there any downside to leaving something seeding indefinitely? Typically I just leave all my torrents seeding whenever I'm done 24/7 (whenever the VPN is on) but is there any detrimental issues to seeding too much?

It doesn't bother me I was just curious if there was ever a such thing as too much seeding since I have like 20+ things seeding and maybe one thing downloading.

Speed isn't an issue since I have gigabit internet.

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[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

One related thing to watch out for is the state table size - one of my old cheap routers back in the day showed how full it was and it was hitting 100% a lot and seemed to grind the network to a halt when it did (I was in a house of 5 young people with lots of devices and multiple people torrenting behind a cheapo Netgear running ddwrt). That's what lead me to switch to high end or x86 based routers. Being able to see the state table stats really helps to know how likely it is to be a problem, it's so big when using opnsense on an x86 box that I don't think it ever goes above 1% now.

Edit: now that I think about it, if your VPN is working I wouldn't expect any states related to peer connections to show up since your router won't be NATing them, I guess I was just bold back in the day because it was a huge problem then.