.. _user_agent: .. raw:: html +------------+--------+----------------------------------+ | name | type | default | +============+========+==================================+ | user_agent | string | "libtorrent/" LIBTORRENT_VERSION | +------------+--------+----------------------------------+ this is the client identification to the tracker. The recommended format of this string is: "ClientName/ClientVersion libtorrent/libtorrentVersion". This name will not only be used when making HTTP requests, but also when sending extended headers to peers that support that extension. It may not contain \r or \n .. _announce_ip: .. raw:: html +-------------+--------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=============+========+=========+ | announce_ip | string | 0 | +-------------+--------+---------+ ``announce_ip`` is the ip address passed along to trackers as the ``&ip=`` parameter. If left as the default, that parameter is omitted. .. _mmap_cache: .. raw:: html +------------+--------+---------+ | name | type | default | +============+========+=========+ | mmap_cache | string | 0 | +------------+--------+---------+ ``mmap_cache`` may be set to a filename where the disk cache will be mmapped to. This could be useful, for instance, to map the disk cache from regular rotating hard drives onto an SSD drive. Doing that effectively introduces a second layer of caching, allowing the disk cache to be as big as can fit on an SSD drive (probably about one order of magnitude more than the available RAM). The intention of this setting is to set it up once at the start up and not change it while running. The setting may not be changed as long as there are any disk buffers in use. This default to the empty string, which means use regular RAM allocations for the disk cache. The file specified will be created and truncated to the disk cache size (``cache_size``). Any existing file with the same name will be replaced. Since this setting sets a hard upper limit on cache usage, it cannot be combined with ``session_settings::contiguous_recv_buffer``, since that feature treats the ``cache_size`` setting as a soft (but still pretty hard) limit. The result of combining the two is peers being disconnected after failing to allocate more disk buffers. This feature requires the ``mmap`` system call, on systems that don't have ``mmap`` this setting is ignored. .. _handshake_client_version: .. raw:: html +--------------------------+--------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========================+========+=========+ | handshake_client_version | string | 0 | +--------------------------+--------+---------+ this is the client name and version identifier sent to peers in the handshake message. If this is an empty string, the user_agent is used instead .. _outgoing_interfaces: .. raw:: html +---------------------+--------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+========+=========+ | outgoing_interfaces | string | "" | +---------------------+--------+---------+ sets the network interface this session will use when it opens outgoing connections. By default, it binds outgoing connections to INADDR_ANY and port 0 (i.e. let the OS decide). Ths parameter must be a string containing one or more, comma separated, adapter names. Adapter names on unix systems are of the form "eth0", "eth1", "tun0", etc. When specifying multiple interfaces, they will be assigned in round-robin order. This may be useful for clients that are multi-homed. Binding an outgoing connection to a local IP does not necessarily make the connection via the associated NIC/Adapter. Setting this to an empty string will disable binding of outgoing connections. .. _listen_interfaces: .. raw:: html +-------------------+--------+----------------+ | name | type | default | +===================+========+================+ | listen_interfaces | string | "0.0.0.0:6881" | +-------------------+--------+----------------+ a comma-separated list of (IP or device name, port) pairs. These are the listen ports that will be opened for accepting incoming uTP and TCP connections. It is possible to listen on multiple interfaces and multiple ports. Binding to port 0 will make the operating system pick the port. The default is "0.0.0.0:0", which binds to all interfaces on a port the OS picks. if binding fails, the listen_failed_alert is posted, otherwise the listen_succeeded_alert. If the DHT is running, it will also have its socket rebound to the same port as the main listen port. The reason why it's a good idea to run the DHT and the bittorrent socket on the same port is because that is an assumption that may be used to increase performance. One way to accelerate the connecting of peers on windows may be to first ping all peers with a DHT ping packet, and connect to those that responds first. On windows one can only connect to a few peers at a time because of a built in limitation (in XP Service pack 2). .. _proxy_hostname: .. raw:: html +----------------+--------+---------+ | name | type | default | +================+========+=========+ | proxy_hostname | string | "" | +----------------+--------+---------+ when using a poxy, this is the hostname where the proxy is running see proxy_type. .. _proxy_username: .. _proxy_password: .. raw:: html +----------------+--------+---------+ | name | type | default | +================+========+=========+ | proxy_username | string | "" | +----------------+--------+---------+ | proxy_password | string | "" | +----------------+--------+---------+ when using a proxy, these are the credentials (if any) to use whne connecting to it. see proxy_type .. _i2p_hostname: .. raw:: html +--------------+--------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==============+========+=========+ | i2p_hostname | string | "" | +--------------+--------+---------+ sets the i2p_ SAM bridge to connect to. set the port with the ``i2p_port`` setting. .. _i2p: http://www.i2p2.de .. _peer_fingerprint: .. raw:: html +------------------+--------+------------+ | name | type | default | +==================+========+============+ | peer_fingerprint | string | "-LT1100-" | +------------------+--------+------------+ this is the fingerprint for the client. It will be used as the prefix to the peer_id. If this is 20 bytes (or longer) it will be used as the peer-id .. _allow_multiple_connections_per_ip: .. raw:: html +-----------------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===================================+======+=========+ | allow_multiple_connections_per_ip | bool | false | +-----------------------------------+------+---------+ determines if connections from the same IP address as existing connections should be rejected or not. Multiple connections from the same IP address is not allowed by default, to prevent abusive behavior by peers. It may be useful to allow such connections in cases where simulations are run on the same machie, and all peers in a swarm has the same IP address. .. _send_redundant_have: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | send_redundant_have | bool | true | +---------------------+------+---------+ if set to true, upload, download and unchoke limits are ignored for peers on the local network. This option is *DEPRECATED*, please use set_peer_class_filter() instead. ``send_redundant_have`` controls if have messages will be sent to peers that already have the piece. This is typically not necessary, but it might be necessary for collecting statistics in some cases. Default is false. .. _lazy_bitfields: .. raw:: html +----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +================+======+=========+ | lazy_bitfields | bool | false | +----------------+------+---------+ if this is true, outgoing bitfields will never be fuil. If the client is seed, a few bits will be set to 0, and later filled in with have messages. This is to prevent certain ISPs from stopping people from seeding. .. _use_dht_as_fallback: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | use_dht_as_fallback | bool | false | +---------------------+------+---------+ ``use_dht_as_fallback`` determines how the DHT is used. If this is true, the DHT will only be used for torrents where all trackers in its tracker list has failed. Either by an explicit error message or a time out. This is false by default, which means the DHT is used by default regardless of if the trackers fail or not. .. _upnp_ignore_nonrouters: .. raw:: html +------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +========================+======+=========+ | upnp_ignore_nonrouters | bool | false | +------------------------+------+---------+ ``upnp_ignore_nonrouters`` indicates whether or not the UPnP implementation should ignore any broadcast response from a device whose address is not the configured router for this machine. i.e. it's a way to not talk to other people's routers by mistake. .. _use_parole_mode: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | use_parole_mode | bool | true | +-----------------+------+---------+ ``use_parole_mode`` specifies if parole mode should be used. Parole mode means that peers that participate in pieces that fail the hash check are put in a mode where they are only allowed to download whole pieces. If the whole piece a peer in parole mode fails the hash check, it is banned. If a peer participates in a piece that passes the hash check, it is taken out of parole mode. .. _use_read_cache: .. _use_write_cache: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | use_read_cache | bool | true | +-----------------+------+---------+ | use_write_cache | bool | true | +-----------------+------+---------+ enable and disable caching of read blocks and blocks to be written to disk respsectively. the purpose of the read cache is partly read-ahead of requests but also to avoid reading blocks back from the disk multiple times for popular pieces. the write cache purpose is to hold off writing blocks to disk until they have been hashed, to avoid having to read them back in again. .. _dont_flush_write_cache: .. raw:: html +------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +========================+======+=========+ | dont_flush_write_cache | bool | false | +------------------------+------+---------+ this will make the disk cache never flush a write piece if it would cause is to have to re-read it once we want to calculate the piece hash .. _explicit_read_cache: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | explicit_read_cache | bool | false | +---------------------+------+---------+ ``explicit_read_cache`` defaults to 0. If set to something greater than 0, the disk read cache will not be evicted by cache misses and will explicitly be controlled based on the rarity of pieces. Rare pieces are more likely to be cached. This would typically be used together with ``suggest_mode`` set to ``suggest_read_cache``. The value is the number of pieces to keep in the read cache. If the actual read cache can't fit as many, it will essentially be clamped. .. _coalesce_reads: .. _coalesce_writes: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | coalesce_reads | bool | false | +-----------------+------+---------+ | coalesce_writes | bool | false | +-----------------+------+---------+ allocate separate, contiguous, buffers for read and write calls. Only used where writev/readv cannot be used will use more RAM but may improve performance .. _auto_manage_prefer_seeds: .. raw:: html +--------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========================+======+=========+ | auto_manage_prefer_seeds | bool | false | +--------------------------+------+---------+ prefer seeding torrents when determining which torrents to give active slots to, the default is false which gives preference to downloading torrents .. _dont_count_slow_torrents: .. raw:: html +--------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========================+======+=========+ | dont_count_slow_torrents | bool | true | +--------------------------+------+---------+ if ``dont_count_slow_torrents`` is true, torrents without any payload transfers are not subject to the ``active_seeds`` and ``active_downloads`` limits. This is intended to make it more likely to utilize all available bandwidth, and avoid having torrents that don't transfer anything block the active slots. .. _close_redundant_connections: .. raw:: html +-----------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=============================+======+=========+ | close_redundant_connections | bool | true | +-----------------------------+------+---------+ ``close_redundant_connections`` specifies whether libtorrent should close connections where both ends have no utility in keeping the connection open. For instance if both ends have completed their downloads, there's no point in keeping it open. .. _prioritize_partial_pieces: .. raw:: html +---------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===========================+======+=========+ | prioritize_partial_pieces | bool | false | +---------------------------+------+---------+ If ``prioritize_partial_pieces`` is true, partial pieces are picked before pieces that are more rare. If false, rare pieces are always prioritized, unless the number of partial pieces is growing out of proportion. .. _rate_limit_ip_overhead: .. raw:: html +------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +========================+======+=========+ | rate_limit_ip_overhead | bool | true | +------------------------+------+---------+ if set to true, the estimated TCP/IP overhead is drained from the rate limiters, to avoid exceeding the limits with the total traffic .. _announce_to_all_tiers: .. _announce_to_all_trackers: .. raw:: html +--------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========================+======+=========+ | announce_to_all_tiers | bool | false | +--------------------------+------+---------+ | announce_to_all_trackers | bool | false | +--------------------------+------+---------+ ``announce_to_all_trackers`` controls how multi tracker torrents are treated. If this is set to true, all trackers in the same tier are announced to in parallel. If all trackers in tier 0 fails, all trackers in tier 1 are announced as well. If it's set to false, the behavior is as defined by the multi tracker specification. It defaults to false, which is the same behavior previous versions of libtorrent has had as well. ``announce_to_all_tiers`` also controls how multi tracker torrents are treated. When this is set to true, one tracker from each tier is announced to. This is the uTorrent behavior. This is false by default in order to comply with the multi-tracker specification. .. _prefer_udp_trackers: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | prefer_udp_trackers | bool | true | +---------------------+------+---------+ ``prefer_udp_trackers`` is true by default. It means that trackers may be rearranged in a way that udp trackers are always tried before http trackers for the same hostname. Setting this to false means that the trackers' tier is respected and there's no preference of one protocol over another. .. _strict_super_seeding: .. raw:: html +----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +======================+======+=========+ | strict_super_seeding | bool | false | +----------------------+------+---------+ ``strict_super_seeding`` when this is set to true, a piece has to have been forwarded to a third peer before another one is handed out. This is the traditional definition of super seeding. .. _lock_disk_cache: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | lock_disk_cache | bool | false | +-----------------+------+---------+ if this is set to true, the memory allocated for the disk cache will be locked in physical RAM, never to be swapped out. Every time a disk buffer is allocated and freed, there will be the extra overhead of a system call. .. _disable_hash_checks: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | disable_hash_checks | bool | false | +---------------------+------+---------+ when set to true, all data downloaded from peers will be assumed to be correct, and not tested to match the hashes in the torrent this is only useful for simulation and testing purposes (typically combined with disabled_storage) .. _allow_i2p_mixed: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | allow_i2p_mixed | bool | false | +-----------------+------+---------+ if this is true, i2p torrents are allowed to also get peers from other sources than the tracker, and connect to regular IPs, not providing any anonymization. This may be useful if the user is not interested in the anonymization of i2p, but still wants to be able to connect to i2p peers. .. _low_prio_disk: .. raw:: html +---------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===============+======+=========+ | low_prio_disk | bool | true | +---------------+------+---------+ ``low_prio_disk`` determines if the disk I/O should use a normal or low priority policy. This defaults to true, which means that it's low priority by default. Other processes doing disk I/O will normally take priority in this mode. This is meant to improve the overall responsiveness of the system while downloading in the background. For high-performance server setups, this might not be desirable. .. _volatile_read_cache: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | volatile_read_cache | bool | false | +---------------------+------+---------+ ``volatile_read_cache``, if this is set to true, read cache blocks that are hit by peer read requests are removed from the disk cache to free up more space. This is useful if you don't expect the disk cache to create any cache hits from other peers than the one who triggered the cache line to be read into the cache in the first place. .. _guided_read_cache: .. raw:: html +-------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===================+======+=========+ | guided_read_cache | bool | false | +-------------------+------+---------+ ``guided_read_cache`` enables the disk cache to adjust the size of a cache line generated by peers to depend on the upload rate you are sending to that peer. The intention is to optimize the RAM usage of the cache, to read ahead further for peers that you're sending faster to. .. _no_atime_storage: .. raw:: html +------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==================+======+=========+ | no_atime_storage | bool | true | +------------------+------+---------+ ``no_atime_storage`` this is a linux-only option and passes in the ``O_NOATIME`` to ``open()`` when opening files. This may lead to some disk performance improvements. .. _incoming_starts_queued_torrents: .. raw:: html +---------------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================================+======+=========+ | incoming_starts_queued_torrents | bool | false | +---------------------------------+------+---------+ ``incoming_starts_queued_torrents`` defaults to false. If a torrent has been paused by the auto managed feature in libtorrent, i.e. the torrent is paused and auto managed, this feature affects whether or not it is automatically started on an incoming connection. The main reason to queue torrents, is not to make them unavailable, but to save on the overhead of announcing to the trackers, the DHT and to avoid spreading one's unchoke slots too thin. If a peer managed to find us, even though we're no in the torrent anymore, this setting can make us start the torrent and serve it. .. _report_true_downloaded: .. raw:: html +------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +========================+======+=========+ | report_true_downloaded | bool | false | +------------------------+------+---------+ when set to true, the downloaded counter sent to trackers will include the actual number of payload bytes donwnloaded including redundant bytes. If set to false, it will not include any redundany bytes .. _strict_end_game_mode: .. raw:: html +----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +======================+======+=========+ | strict_end_game_mode | bool | true | +----------------------+------+---------+ ``strict_end_game_mode`` defaults to true, and controls when a block may be requested twice. If this is ``true``, a block may only be requested twice when there's ay least one request to every piece that's left to download in the torrent. This may slow down progress on some pieces sometimes, but it may also avoid downloading a lot of redundant bytes. If this is ``false``, libtorrent attempts to use each peer connection to its max, by always requesting something, even if it means requesting something that has been requested from another peer already. .. _broadcast_lsd: .. raw:: html +---------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===============+======+=========+ | broadcast_lsd | bool | true | +---------------+------+---------+ if ``broadcast_lsd`` is set to true, the local peer discovery (or Local Service Discovery) will not only use IP multicast, but also broadcast its messages. This can be useful when running on networks that don't support multicast. Since broadcast messages might be expensive and disruptive on networks, only every 8th announce uses broadcast. .. _enable_outgoing_utp: .. _enable_incoming_utp: .. _enable_outgoing_tcp: .. _enable_incoming_tcp: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | enable_outgoing_utp | bool | true | +---------------------+------+---------+ | enable_incoming_utp | bool | true | +---------------------+------+---------+ | enable_outgoing_tcp | bool | true | +---------------------+------+---------+ | enable_incoming_tcp | bool | true | +---------------------+------+---------+ when set to true, libtorrent will try to make outgoing utp connections controls whether libtorrent will accept incoming connections or make outgoing connections of specific type. .. _ignore_resume_timestamps: .. raw:: html +--------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========================+======+=========+ | ignore_resume_timestamps | bool | false | +--------------------------+------+---------+ ``ignore_resume_timestamps`` determines if the storage, when loading resume data files, should verify that the file modification time with the timestamps in the resume data. This defaults to false, which means timestamps are taken into account, and resume data is less likely to accepted (torrents are more likely to be fully checked when loaded). It might be useful to set this to true if your network is faster than your disk, and it would be faster to redownload potentially missed pieces than to go through the whole storage to look for them. .. _no_recheck_incomplete_resume: .. raw:: html +------------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==============================+======+=========+ | no_recheck_incomplete_resume | bool | false | +------------------------------+------+---------+ ``no_recheck_incomplete_resume`` determines if the storage should check the whole files when resume data is incomplete or missing or whether it should simply assume we don't have any of the data. By default, this is determined by the existance of any of the files. By setting this setting to true, the files won't be checked, but will go straight to download mode. .. _anonymous_mode: .. raw:: html +----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +================+======+=========+ | anonymous_mode | bool | false | +----------------+------+---------+ ``anonymous_mode`` defaults to false. When set to true, the client tries to hide its identity to a certain degree. The peer-ID will no longer include the client's fingerprint. The user-agent will be reset to an empty string. Trackers will only be used if they are using a proxy server. The listen sockets are closed, and incoming connections will only be accepted through a SOCKS5 or I2P proxy (if a peer proxy is set up and is run on the same machine as the tracker proxy). Since no incoming connections are accepted, NAT-PMP, UPnP, DHT and local peer discovery are all turned off when this setting is enabled. If you're using I2P, it might make sense to enable anonymous mode as well. .. _report_web_seed_downloads: .. raw:: html +---------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===========================+======+=========+ | report_web_seed_downloads | bool | true | +---------------------------+------+---------+ specifies whether downloads from web seeds is reported to the tracker or not. Defaults to on. Turning it off also excludes web seed traffic from other stats and download rate reporting via the libtorrent API. .. _announce_double_nat: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | announce_double_nat | bool | false | +---------------------+------+---------+ set to true if uTP connections should be rate limited This option is *DEPRECATED*, please use set_peer_class_filter() instead. if this is true, the ``&ip=`` argument in tracker requests (unless otherwise specified) will be set to the intermediate IP address if the user is double NATed. If ther user is not double NATed, this option does not have an affect .. _seeding_outgoing_connections: .. raw:: html +------------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==============================+======+=========+ | seeding_outgoing_connections | bool | true | +------------------------------+------+---------+ ``seeding_outgoing_connections`` determines if seeding (and finished) torrents should attempt to make outgoing connections or not. By default this is true. It may be set to false in very specific applications where the cost of making outgoing connections is high, and there are no or small benefits of doing so. For instance, if no nodes are behind a firewall or a NAT, seeds don't need to make outgoing connections. .. _no_connect_privileged_ports: .. raw:: html +-----------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=============================+======+=========+ | no_connect_privileged_ports | bool | false | +-----------------------------+------+---------+ when this is true, libtorrent will not attempt to make outgoing connections to peers whose port is < 1024. This is a safety precaution to avoid being part of a DDoS attack .. _smooth_connects: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | smooth_connects | bool | true | +-----------------+------+---------+ ``smooth_connects`` is true by default, which means the number of connection attempts per second may be limited to below the ``connection_speed``, in case we're close to bump up against the limit of number of connections. The intention of this setting is to more evenly distribute our connection attempts over time, instead of attempting to connectin in batches, and timing them out in batches. .. _always_send_user_agent: .. raw:: html +------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +========================+======+=========+ | always_send_user_agent | bool | false | +------------------------+------+---------+ always send user-agent in every web seed request. If false, only the first request per http connection will include the user agent .. _apply_ip_filter_to_trackers: .. raw:: html +-----------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=============================+======+=========+ | apply_ip_filter_to_trackers | bool | true | +-----------------------------+------+---------+ ``apply_ip_filter_to_trackers`` defaults to true. It determines whether the IP filter applies to trackers as well as peers. If this is set to false, trackers are exempt from the IP filter (if there is one). If no IP filter is set, this setting is irrelevant. .. _use_disk_read_ahead: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | use_disk_read_ahead | bool | true | +---------------------+------+---------+ ``use_disk_read_ahead`` defaults to true and will attempt to optimize disk reads by giving the operating system heads up of disk read requests as they are queued in the disk job queue. .. _lock_files: .. raw:: html +------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +============+======+=========+ | lock_files | bool | false | +------------+------+---------+ ``lock_files`` determines whether or not to lock files which libtorrent is downloading to or seeding from. This is implemented using ``fcntl(F_SETLK)`` on unix systems and by not passing in ``SHARE_READ`` and ``SHARE_WRITE`` on windows. This might prevent 3rd party processes from corrupting the files under libtorrent's feet. .. _contiguous_recv_buffer: .. raw:: html +------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +========================+======+=========+ | contiguous_recv_buffer | bool | true | +------------------------+------+---------+ ``contiguous_recv_buffer`` determines whether or not libtorrent should receive data from peers into a contiguous intermediate buffer, to then copy blocks into disk buffers from, or to make many smaller calls to ``read()``, each time passing in the specific buffer the data belongs in. When downloading at high rates, the latter may save some time copying data. When seeding at high rates, all incoming traffic consists of a very large number of tiny packets, and enabling ``contiguous_recv_buffer`` will provide higher performance. When this is enabled, it will only be used when seeding to peers, since that's when it provides performance improvements. .. _ban_web_seeds: .. raw:: html +---------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===============+======+=========+ | ban_web_seeds | bool | true | +---------------+------+---------+ when true, web seeds sending bad data will be banned .. _allow_partial_disk_writes: .. raw:: html +---------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===========================+======+=========+ | allow_partial_disk_writes | bool | true | +---------------------------+------+---------+ when set to false, the ``write_cache_line_size`` will apply across piece boundaries. this is a bad idea unless the piece picker also is configured to have an affinity to pick pieces belonging to the same write cache line as is configured in the disk cache. .. _force_proxy: .. raw:: html +-------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=============+======+=========+ | force_proxy | bool | false | +-------------+------+---------+ If true, disables any communication that's not going over a proxy. Enabling this requires a proxy to be configured as well, see ``set_proxy_settings``. The listen sockets are closed, and incoming connections will only be accepted through a SOCKS5 or I2P proxy (if a peer proxy is set up and is run on the same machine as the tracker proxy). This setting also disabled peer country lookups, since those are done via DNS lookups that aren't supported by proxies. .. _support_share_mode: .. raw:: html +--------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +====================+======+=========+ | support_share_mode | bool | true | +--------------------+------+---------+ if false, prevents libtorrent to advertise share-mode support .. _support_merkle_torrents: .. raw:: html +-------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=========================+======+=========+ | support_merkle_torrents | bool | true | +-------------------------+------+---------+ if this is false, don't advertise support for the Tribler merkle tree piece message .. _report_redundant_bytes: .. raw:: html +------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +========================+======+=========+ | report_redundant_bytes | bool | true | +------------------------+------+---------+ if this is true, the number of redundant bytes is sent to the tracker .. _listen_system_port_fallback: .. raw:: html +-----------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=============================+======+=========+ | listen_system_port_fallback | bool | true | +-----------------------------+------+---------+ if this is true, libtorrent will fall back to listening on a port chosen by the operating system (i.e. binding to port 0). If a failure is preferred, set this to false. .. _use_disk_cache_pool: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | use_disk_cache_pool | bool | false | +---------------------+------+---------+ ``use_disk_cache_pool`` enables using a pool allocator for disk cache blocks. Enabling it makes the cache perform better at high throughput. It also makes the cache less likely and slower at returning memory back to the system, once allocated. .. _announce_crypto_support: .. raw:: html +-------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=========================+======+=========+ | announce_crypto_support | bool | true | +-------------------------+------+---------+ when this is true, and incoming encrypted connections are enabled, &supportcrypt=1 is included in http tracker announces .. _enable_upnp: .. raw:: html +-------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=============+======+=========+ | enable_upnp | bool | true | +-------------+------+---------+ Starts and stops the UPnP service. When started, the listen port and the DHT port are attempted to be forwarded on local UPnP router devices. The upnp object returned by ``start_upnp()`` can be used to add and remove arbitrary port mappings. Mapping status is returned through the portmap_alert and the portmap_error_alert. The object will be valid until ``stop_upnp()`` is called. See upnp-and-nat-pmp_. .. _enable_natpmp: .. raw:: html +---------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===============+======+=========+ | enable_natpmp | bool | true | +---------------+------+---------+ Starts and stops the NAT-PMP service. When started, the listen port and the DHT port are attempted to be forwarded on the router through NAT-PMP. The natpmp object returned by ``start_natpmp()`` can be used to add and remove arbitrary port mappings. Mapping status is returned through the portmap_alert and the portmap_error_alert. The object will be valid until ``stop_natpmp()`` is called. See upnp-and-nat-pmp_. .. _enable_lsd: .. raw:: html +------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +============+======+=========+ | enable_lsd | bool | true | +------------+------+---------+ Starts and stops Local Service Discovery. This service will broadcast the infohashes of all the non-private torrents on the local network to look for peers on the same swarm within multicast reach. .. _enable_dht: .. raw:: html +------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +============+======+=========+ | enable_dht | bool | true | +------------+------+---------+ starts the dht node and makes the trackerless service available to torrents. .. _prefer_rc4: .. raw:: html +------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +============+======+=========+ | prefer_rc4 | bool | false | +------------+------+---------+ if the allowed encryption level is both, setting this to true will prefer rc4 if both methods are offered, plaintext otherwise .. _proxy_hostnames: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | proxy_hostnames | bool | true | +-----------------+------+---------+ if true, hostname lookups are done via the configured proxy (if any). This is only supported by SOCKS5 and HTTP. .. _proxy_peer_connections: .. raw:: html +------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +========================+======+=========+ | proxy_peer_connections | bool | true | +------------------------+------+---------+ if true, peer connections are made (and accepted) over the configured proxy, if any. .. _auto_sequential: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | auto_sequential | bool | true | +-----------------+------+---------+ if this setting is true, torrents with a very high availability of pieces (and seeds) are downloaded sequentially. This is more efficient for the disk I/O. With many seeds, the download order is unlikely to matter anyway .. _proxy_tracker_connections: .. raw:: html +---------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===========================+======+=========+ | proxy_tracker_connections | bool | true | +---------------------------+------+---------+ if true, trackerconnections are made over the configured proxy, if any. .. _tracker_completion_timeout: .. raw:: html +----------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +============================+======+=========+ | tracker_completion_timeout | int | 30 | +----------------------------+------+---------+ ``tracker_completion_timeout`` is the number of seconds the tracker connection will wait from when it sent the request until it considers the tracker to have timed-out. Default value is 60 seconds. .. _tracker_receive_timeout: .. raw:: html +-------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=========================+======+=========+ | tracker_receive_timeout | int | 10 | +-------------------------+------+---------+ ``tracker_receive_timeout`` is the number of seconds to wait to receive any data from the tracker. If no data is received for this number of seconds, the tracker will be considered as having timed out. If a tracker is down, this is the kind of timeout that will occur. .. _stop_tracker_timeout: .. raw:: html +----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +======================+======+=========+ | stop_tracker_timeout | int | 5 | +----------------------+------+---------+ the time to wait when sending a stopped message before considering a tracker to have timed out. this is usually shorter, to make the client quit faster .. _tracker_maximum_response_length: .. raw:: html +---------------------------------+------+-----------+ | name | type | default | +=================================+======+===========+ | tracker_maximum_response_length | int | 1024*1024 | +---------------------------------+------+-----------+ this is the maximum number of bytes in a tracker response. If a response size passes this number of bytes it will be rejected and the connection will be closed. On gzipped responses this size is measured on the uncompressed data. So, if you get 20 bytes of gzip response that'll expand to 2 megabytes, it will be interrupted before the entire response has been uncompressed (assuming the limit is lower than 2 megs). .. _piece_timeout: .. raw:: html +---------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===============+======+=========+ | piece_timeout | int | 20 | +---------------+------+---------+ the number of seconds from a request is sent until it times out if no piece response is returned. .. _request_timeout: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | request_timeout | int | 60 | +-----------------+------+---------+ the number of seconds one block (16kB) is expected to be received within. If it's not, the block is requested from a different peer .. _request_queue_time: .. raw:: html +--------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +====================+======+=========+ | request_queue_time | int | 3 | +--------------------+------+---------+ the length of the request queue given in the number of seconds it should take for the other end to send all the pieces. i.e. the actual number of requests depends on the download rate and this number. .. _max_allowed_in_request_queue: .. raw:: html +------------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==============================+======+=========+ | max_allowed_in_request_queue | int | 500 | +------------------------------+------+---------+ the number of outstanding block requests a peer is allowed to queue up in the client. If a peer sends more requests than this (before the first one has been sent) the last request will be dropped. the higher this is, the faster upload speeds the client can get to a single peer. .. _max_out_request_queue: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=========+ | max_out_request_queue | int | 500 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ ``max_out_request_queue`` is the maximum number of outstanding requests to send to a peer. This limit takes precedence over ``request_queue_time``. i.e. no matter the download speed, the number of outstanding requests will never exceed this limit. .. _whole_pieces_threshold: .. raw:: html +------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +========================+======+=========+ | whole_pieces_threshold | int | 20 | +------------------------+------+---------+ if a whole piece can be downloaded in this number of seconds, or less, the peer_connection will prefer to request whole pieces at a time from this peer. The benefit of this is to better utilize disk caches by doing localized accesses and also to make it easier to identify bad peers if a piece fails the hash check. .. _peer_timeout: .. raw:: html +--------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==============+======+=========+ | peer_timeout | int | 120 | +--------------+------+---------+ ``peer_timeout`` is the number of seconds the peer connection should wait (for any activity on the peer connection) before closing it due to time out. This defaults to 120 seconds, since that's what's specified in the protocol specification. After half the time out, a keep alive message is sent. .. _urlseed_timeout: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | urlseed_timeout | int | 20 | +-----------------+------+---------+ same as peer_timeout, but only applies to url-seeds. this is usually set lower, because web servers are expected to be more reliable. .. _urlseed_pipeline_size: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=========+ | urlseed_pipeline_size | int | 5 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ controls the pipelining size of url-seeds. i.e. the number of HTTP request to keep outstanding before waiting for the first one to complete. It's common for web servers to limit this to a relatively low number, like 5 .. _urlseed_wait_retry: .. raw:: html +--------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +====================+======+=========+ | urlseed_wait_retry | int | 30 | +--------------------+------+---------+ time to wait until a new retry of a web seed takes place .. _file_pool_size: .. raw:: html +----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +================+======+=========+ | file_pool_size | int | 40 | +----------------+------+---------+ sets the upper limit on the total number of files this session will keep open. The reason why files are left open at all is that some anti virus software hooks on every file close, and scans the file for viruses. deferring the closing of the files will be the difference between a usable system and a completely hogged down system. Most operating systems also has a limit on the total number of file descriptors a process may have open. It is usually a good idea to find this limit and set the number of connections and the number of files limits so their sum is slightly below it. .. _max_failcount: .. raw:: html +---------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===============+======+=========+ | max_failcount | int | 3 | +---------------+------+---------+ ``max_failcount`` is the maximum times we try to connect to a peer before stop connecting again. If a peer succeeds, the failcounter is reset. If a peer is retrieved from a peer source (other than DHT) the failcount is decremented by one, allowing another try. .. _min_reconnect_time: .. raw:: html +--------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +====================+======+=========+ | min_reconnect_time | int | 60 | +--------------------+------+---------+ the number of seconds to wait to reconnect to a peer. this time is multiplied with the failcount. .. _peer_connect_timeout: .. raw:: html +----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +======================+======+=========+ | peer_connect_timeout | int | 15 | +----------------------+------+---------+ ``peer_connect_timeout`` the number of seconds to wait after a connection attempt is initiated to a peer until it is considered as having timed out. This setting is especially important in case the number of half-open connections are limited, since stale half-open connection may delay the connection of other peers considerably. .. _connection_speed: .. raw:: html +------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==================+======+=========+ | connection_speed | int | 6 | +------------------+------+---------+ ``connection_speed`` is the number of connection attempts that are made per second. If a number < 0 is specified, it will default to 200 connections per second. If 0 is specified, it means don't make outgoing connections at all. .. _inactivity_timeout: .. raw:: html +--------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +====================+======+=========+ | inactivity_timeout | int | 600 | +--------------------+------+---------+ if a peer is uninteresting and uninterested for longer than this number of seconds, it will be disconnected. default is 10 minutes .. _unchoke_interval: .. raw:: html +------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==================+======+=========+ | unchoke_interval | int | 15 | +------------------+------+---------+ ``unchoke_interval`` is the number of seconds between chokes/unchokes. On this interval, peers are re-evaluated for being choked/unchoked. This is defined as 30 seconds in the protocol, and it should be significantly longer than what it takes for TCP to ramp up to it's max rate. .. _optimistic_unchoke_interval: .. raw:: html +-----------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=============================+======+=========+ | optimistic_unchoke_interval | int | 30 | +-----------------------------+------+---------+ ``optimistic_unchoke_interval`` is the number of seconds between each *optimistic* unchoke. On this timer, the currently optimistically unchoked peer will change. .. _num_want: .. raw:: html +----------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========+======+=========+ | num_want | int | 200 | +----------+------+---------+ ``num_want`` is the number of peers we want from each tracker request. It defines what is sent as the ``&num_want=`` parameter to the tracker. .. _initial_picker_threshold: .. raw:: html +--------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========================+======+=========+ | initial_picker_threshold | int | 4 | +--------------------------+------+---------+ ``initial_picker_threshold`` specifies the number of pieces we need before we switch to rarest first picking. This defaults to 4, which means the 4 first pieces in any torrent are picked at random, the following pieces are picked in rarest first order. .. _allowed_fast_set_size: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=========+ | allowed_fast_set_size | int | 10 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ the number of allowed pieces to send to peers that supports the fast extensions .. _suggest_mode: .. raw:: html +--------------+------+-------------------------------------+ | name | type | default | +==============+======+=====================================+ | suggest_mode | int | settings_pack::no_piece_suggestions | +--------------+------+-------------------------------------+ ``suggest_mode`` controls whether or not libtorrent will send out suggest messages to create a bias of its peers to request certain pieces. The modes are: * ``no_piece_suggestsions`` which is the default and will not send out suggest messages. * ``suggest_read_cache`` which will send out suggest messages for the most recent pieces that are in the read cache. .. _max_queued_disk_bytes: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+-------------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=============+ | max_queued_disk_bytes | int | 1024 * 1024 | +-----------------------+------+-------------+ ``max_queued_disk_bytes`` is the number maximum number of bytes, to be written to disk, that can wait in the disk I/O thread queue. This queue is only for waiting for the disk I/O thread to receive the job and either write it to disk or insert it in the write cache. When this limit is reached, the peer connections will stop reading data from their sockets, until the disk thread catches up. Setting this too low will severly limit your download rate. .. _handshake_timeout: .. raw:: html +-------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===================+======+=========+ | handshake_timeout | int | 10 | +-------------------+------+---------+ the number of seconds to wait for a handshake response from a peer. If no response is received within this time, the peer is disconnected. .. _send_buffer_low_watermark: .. _send_buffer_watermark: .. _send_buffer_watermark_factor: .. raw:: html +------------------------------+------+------------+ | name | type | default | +==============================+======+============+ | send_buffer_low_watermark | int | 10 * 1024 | +------------------------------+------+------------+ | send_buffer_watermark | int | 500 * 1024 | +------------------------------+------+------------+ | send_buffer_watermark_factor | int | 50 | +------------------------------+------+------------+ ``send_buffer_low_watermark`` the minimum send buffer target size (send buffer includes bytes pending being read from disk). For good and snappy seeding performance, set this fairly high, to at least fit a few blocks. This is essentially the initial window size which will determine how fast we can ramp up the send rate if the send buffer has fewer bytes than ``send_buffer_watermark``, we'll read another 16kB block onto it. If set too small, upload rate capacity will suffer. If set too high, memory will be wasted. The actual watermark may be lower than this in case the upload rate is low, this is the upper limit. the current upload rate to a peer is multiplied by this factor to get the send buffer watermark. The factor is specified as a percentage. i.e. 50 -> 0.5 This product is clamped to the ``send_buffer_watermark`` setting to not exceed the max. For high speed upload, this should be set to a greater value than 100. For high capacity connections, setting this higher can improve upload performance and disk throughput. Setting it too high may waste RAM and create a bias towards read jobs over write jobs. .. _choking_algorithm: .. _seed_choking_algorithm: .. raw:: html +------------------------+------+-----------------------------------+ | name | type | default | +========================+======+===================================+ | choking_algorithm | int | settings_pack::fixed_slots_choker | +------------------------+------+-----------------------------------+ | seed_choking_algorithm | int | settings_pack::round_robin | +------------------------+------+-----------------------------------+ ``choking_algorithm`` specifies which algorithm to use to determine which peers to unchoke. The options for choking algorithms are: * ``fixed_slots_choker`` is the traditional choker with a fixed number of unchoke slots (as specified by ``session::set_max_uploads()``). * ``rate_based_choker`` opens up unchoke slots based on the upload rate achieved to peers. The more slots that are opened, the marginal upload rate required to open up another slot increases. * ``bittyrant_choker`` attempts to optimize download rate by finding the reciprocation rate of each peer individually and prefers peers that gives the highest *return on investment*. It still allocates all upload capacity, but shuffles it around to the best peers first. For this choker to be efficient, you need to set a global upload rate limit (``session::set_upload_rate_limit()``). For more information about this choker, see the paper_. This choker is not fully implemented nor tested. .. _paper: http://bittyrant.cs.washington.edu/#papers ``seed_choking_algorithm`` controls the seeding unchoke behavior. The available options are: * ``round_robin`` which round-robins the peers that are unchoked when seeding. This distributes the upload bandwidht uniformly and fairly. It minimizes the ability for a peer to download everything without redistributing it. * ``fastest_upload`` unchokes the peers we can send to the fastest. This might be a bit more reliable in utilizing all available capacity. * ``anti_leech`` prioritizes peers who have just started or are just about to finish the download. The intention is to force peers in the middle of the download to trade with each other. .. _cache_size: .. _cache_buffer_chunk_size: .. _cache_expiry: .. raw:: html +-------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=========================+======+=========+ | cache_size | int | 1024 | +-------------------------+------+---------+ | cache_buffer_chunk_size | int | 0 | +-------------------------+------+---------+ | cache_expiry | int | 300 | +-------------------------+------+---------+ ``cache_size`` is the disk write and read cache. It is specified in units of 16 KiB blocks. Buffers that are part of a peer's send or receive buffer also count against this limit. Send and receive buffers will never be denied to be allocated, but they will cause the actual cached blocks to be flushed or evicted. If this is set to -1, the cache size is automatically set to the amount of physical RAM available in the machine divided by 8. If the amount of physical RAM cannot be determined, it's set to 1024 (= 16 MiB). Disk buffers are allocated using a pool allocator, the number of blocks that are allocated at a time when the pool needs to grow can be specified in ``cache_buffer_chunk_size``. Lower numbers saves memory at the expense of more heap allocations. If it is set to 0, the effective chunk size is proportional to the total cache size, attempting to strike a good balance between performance and memory usage. It defaults to 0. ``cache_expiry`` is the number of seconds from the last cached write to a piece in the write cache, to when it's forcefully flushed to disk. Default is 60 second. .. _explicit_cache_interval: .. raw:: html +-------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=========================+======+=========+ | explicit_cache_interval | int | 30 | +-------------------------+------+---------+ ``explicit_cache_interval`` is the number of seconds in between each refresh of a part of the explicit read cache. Torrents take turns in refreshing and this is the time in between each torrent refresh. Refreshing a torrent's explicit read cache means scanning all pieces and picking a random set of the rarest ones. There is an affinity to pick pieces that are already in the cache, so that subsequent refreshes only swaps in pieces that are rarer than whatever is in the cache at the time. .. _disk_io_write_mode: .. _disk_io_read_mode: .. raw:: html +--------------------+------+--------------------------------+ | name | type | default | +====================+======+================================+ | disk_io_write_mode | int | settings_pack::enable_os_cache | +--------------------+------+--------------------------------+ | disk_io_read_mode | int | settings_pack::enable_os_cache | +--------------------+------+--------------------------------+ determines how files are opened when they're in read only mode versus read and write mode. The options are: enable_os_cache This is the default and files are opened normally, with the OS caching reads and writes. disable_os_cache This opens all files in no-cache mode. This corresponds to the OS not letting blocks for the files linger in the cache. This makes sense in order to avoid the bittorrent client to potentially evict all other processes' cache by simply handling high throughput and large files. If libtorrent's read cache is disabled, enabling this may reduce performance. One reason to disable caching is that it may help the operating system from growing its file cache indefinitely. .. _outgoing_port: .. _num_outgoing_ports: .. raw:: html +--------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +====================+======+=========+ | outgoing_port | int | 0 | +--------------------+------+---------+ | num_outgoing_ports | int | 0 | +--------------------+------+---------+ this is the first port to use for binding outgoing connections to. This is useful for users that have routers that allow QoS settings based on local port. when binding outgoing connections to specific ports, ``num_outgoing_ports`` is the size of the range. It should be more than a few .. warning:: setting outgoing ports will limit the ability to keep multiple connections to the same client, even for different torrents. It is not recommended to change this setting. Its main purpose is to use as an escape hatch for cheap routers with QoS capability but can only classify flows based on port numbers. It is a range instead of a single port because of the problems with failing to reconnect to peers if a previous socket to that peer and port is in ``TIME_WAIT`` state. .. _peer_tos: .. raw:: html +----------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========+======+=========+ | peer_tos | int | 0 | +----------+------+---------+ ``peer_tos`` determines the TOS byte set in the IP header of every packet sent to peers (including web seeds). The default value for this is ``0x0`` (no marking). One potentially useful TOS mark is ``0x20``, this represents the *QBone scavenger service*. For more details, see QBSS_. .. _`QBSS`: http://qbone.internet2.edu/qbss/ .. _active_downloads: .. _active_seeds: .. _active_dht_limit: .. _active_tracker_limit: .. _active_lsd_limit: .. _active_limit: .. _active_loaded_limit: .. raw:: html +----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +======================+======+=========+ | active_downloads | int | 3 | +----------------------+------+---------+ | active_seeds | int | 5 | +----------------------+------+---------+ | active_dht_limit | int | 88 | +----------------------+------+---------+ | active_tracker_limit | int | 1600 | +----------------------+------+---------+ | active_lsd_limit | int | 60 | +----------------------+------+---------+ | active_limit | int | 15 | +----------------------+------+---------+ | active_loaded_limit | int | 100 | +----------------------+------+---------+ for auto managed torrents, these are the limits they are subject to. If there are too many torrents some of the auto managed ones will be paused until some slots free up. ``active_downloads`` and ``active_seeds`` controls how many active seeding and downloading torrents the queuing mechanism allows. The target number of active torrents is ``min(active_downloads + active_seeds, active_limit)``. ``active_downloads`` and ``active_seeds`` are upper limits on the number of downloading torrents and seeding torrents respectively. Setting the value to -1 means unlimited. For example if there are 10 seeding torrents and 10 downloading torrents, and ``active_downloads`` is 4 and ``active_seeds`` is 4, there will be 4 seeds active and 4 downloading torrents. If the settings are ``active_downloads`` = 2 and ``active_seeds`` = 4, then there will be 2 downloading torrents and 4 seeding torrents active. Torrents that are not auto managed are not counted against these limits. ``active_limit`` is a hard limit on the number of active torrents. This applies even to slow torrents. ``active_dht_limit`` is the max number of torrents to announce to the DHT. By default this is set to 88, which is no more than one DHT announce every 10 seconds. ``active_tracker_limit`` is the max number of torrents to announce to their trackers. By default this is 360, which is no more than one announce every 5 seconds. ``active_lsd_limit`` is the max number of torrents to announce to the local network over the local service discovery protocol. By default this is 80, which is no more than one announce every 5 seconds (assuming the default announce interval of 5 minutes). You can have more torrents *active*, even though they are not announced to the DHT, lsd or their tracker. If some peer knows about you for any reason and tries to connect, it will still be accepted, unless the torrent is paused, which means it won't accept any connections. ``active_loaded_limit`` is the number of torrents that are allowed to be *loaded* at any given time. Note that a torrent can be active even though it's not loaded. if an unloaded torrents finds a peer that wants to access it, the torrent will be loaded on demand, using a user-supplied callback function. If the feature of unloading torrents is not enabled, this setting have no effect. If this limit is set to 0, it means unlimited. For more information, see dynamic-loading-of-torrent-files_. .. _auto_manage_interval: .. raw:: html +----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +======================+======+=========+ | auto_manage_interval | int | 30 | +----------------------+------+---------+ ``auto_manage_interval`` is the number of seconds between the torrent queue is updated, and rotated. .. _seed_time_limit: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+--------------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+==============+ | seed_time_limit | int | 24 * 60 * 60 | +-----------------+------+--------------+ this is the limit on the time a torrent has been an active seed (specified in seconds) before it is considered having met the seed limit criteria. See queuing_. .. _auto_scrape_interval: .. _auto_scrape_min_interval: .. raw:: html +--------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========================+======+=========+ | auto_scrape_interval | int | 1800 | +--------------------------+------+---------+ | auto_scrape_min_interval | int | 300 | +--------------------------+------+---------+ ``auto_scrape_interval`` is the number of seconds between scrapes of queued torrents (auto managed and paused torrents). Auto managed torrents that are paused, are scraped regularly in order to keep track of their downloader/seed ratio. This ratio is used to determine which torrents to seed and which to pause. ``auto_scrape_min_interval`` is the minimum number of seconds between any automatic scrape (regardless of torrent). In case there are a large number of paused auto managed torrents, this puts a limit on how often a scrape request is sent. .. _max_peerlist_size: .. _max_paused_peerlist_size: .. raw:: html +--------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========================+======+=========+ | max_peerlist_size | int | 3000 | +--------------------------+------+---------+ | max_paused_peerlist_size | int | 1000 | +--------------------------+------+---------+ ``max_peerlist_size`` is the maximum number of peers in the list of known peers. These peers are not necessarily connected, so this number should be much greater than the maximum number of connected peers. Peers are evicted from the cache when the list grows passed 90% of this limit, and once the size hits the limit, peers are no longer added to the list. If this limit is set to 0, there is no limit on how many peers we'll keep in the peer list. ``max_paused_peerlist_size`` is the max peer list size used for torrents that are paused. This default to the same as ``max_peerlist_size``, but can be used to save memory for paused torrents, since it's not as important for them to keep a large peer list. .. _min_announce_interval: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=========+ | min_announce_interval | int | 5 * 60 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ this is the minimum allowed announce interval for a tracker. This is specified in seconds and is used as a sanity check on what is returned from a tracker. It mitigates hammering misconfigured trackers. .. _auto_manage_startup: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | auto_manage_startup | int | 60 | +---------------------+------+---------+ this is the number of seconds a torrent is considered active after it was started, regardless of upload and download speed. This is so that newly started torrents are not considered inactive until they have a fair chance to start downloading. .. _seeding_piece_quota: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | seeding_piece_quota | int | 20 | +---------------------+------+---------+ ``seeding_piece_quota`` is the number of pieces to send to a peer, when seeding, before rotating in another peer to the unchoke set. It defaults to 3 pieces, which means that when seeding, any peer we've sent more than this number of pieces to will be unchoked in favour of a choked peer. .. _max_rejects: .. raw:: html +-------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=============+======+=========+ | max_rejects | int | 50 | +-------------+------+---------+ TODO: deprecate this ``max_rejects`` is the number of piece requests we will reject in a row while a peer is choked before the peer is considered abusive and is disconnected. .. _recv_socket_buffer_size: .. _send_socket_buffer_size: .. raw:: html +-------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=========================+======+=========+ | recv_socket_buffer_size | int | 0 | +-------------------------+------+---------+ | send_socket_buffer_size | int | 0 | +-------------------------+------+---------+ ``recv_socket_buffer_size`` and ``send_socket_buffer_size`` specifies the buffer sizes set on peer sockets. 0 (which is the default) means the OS default (i.e. don't change the buffer sizes). The socket buffer sizes are changed using setsockopt() with SOL_SOCKET/SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUFFER. .. _file_checks_delay_per_block: .. raw:: html +-----------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=============================+======+=========+ | file_checks_delay_per_block | int | 0 | +-----------------------------+------+---------+ ``file_checks_delay_per_block`` is the number of milliseconds to sleep in between disk read operations when checking torrents. This defaults to 0, but can be set to higher numbers to slow down the rate at which data is read from the disk while checking. This may be useful for background tasks that doesn't matter if they take a bit longer, as long as they leave disk I/O time for other processes. .. _read_cache_line_size: .. _write_cache_line_size: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=========+ | read_cache_line_size | int | 32 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ | write_cache_line_size | int | 16 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ ``read_cache_line_size`` is the number of blocks to read into the read cache when a read cache miss occurs. Setting this to 0 is essentially the same thing as disabling read cache. The number of blocks read into the read cache is always capped by the piece boundry. When a piece in the write cache has ``write_cache_line_size`` contiguous blocks in it, they will be flushed. Setting this to 1 effectively disables the write cache. .. _optimistic_disk_retry: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=========+ | optimistic_disk_retry | int | 10 * 60 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ ``optimistic_disk_retry`` is the number of seconds from a disk write errors occur on a torrent until libtorrent will take it out of the upload mode, to test if the error condition has been fixed. libtorrent will only do this automatically for auto managed torrents. You can explicitly take a torrent out of upload only mode using set_upload_mode(). .. _max_suggest_pieces: .. raw:: html +--------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +====================+======+=========+ | max_suggest_pieces | int | 10 | +--------------------+------+---------+ ``max_suggest_pieces`` is the max number of suggested piece indices received from a peer that's remembered. If a peer floods suggest messages, this limit prevents libtorrent from using too much RAM. It defaults to 10. .. _local_service_announce_interval: .. raw:: html +---------------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================================+======+=========+ | local_service_announce_interval | int | 5 * 60 | +---------------------------------+------+---------+ ``local_service_announce_interval`` is the time between local network announces for a torrent. By default, when local service discovery is enabled a torrent announces itself every 5 minutes. This interval is specified in seconds. .. _dht_announce_interval: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=========+ | dht_announce_interval | int | 15 * 60 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ ``dht_announce_interval`` is the number of seconds between announcing torrents to the distributed hash table (DHT). .. _udp_tracker_token_expiry: .. raw:: html +--------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========================+======+=========+ | udp_tracker_token_expiry | int | 60 | +--------------------------+------+---------+ ``udp_tracker_token_expiry`` is the number of seconds libtorrent will keep UDP tracker connection tokens around for. This is specified to be 60 seconds, and defaults to that. The higher this value is, the fewer packets have to be sent to the UDP tracker. In order for higher values to work, the tracker needs to be configured to match the expiration time for tokens. .. _default_cache_min_age: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=========+ | default_cache_min_age | int | 1 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ ``default_cache_min_age`` is the minimum number of seconds any read cache line is kept in the cache. This defaults to one second but may be greater if ``guided_read_cache`` is enabled. Having a lower bound on the time a cache line stays in the cache is an attempt to avoid swapping the same pieces in and out of the cache in case there is a shortage of spare cache space. .. _num_optimistic_unchoke_slots: .. raw:: html +------------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==============================+======+=========+ | num_optimistic_unchoke_slots | int | 0 | +------------------------------+------+---------+ ``num_optimistic_unchoke_slots`` is the number of optimistic unchoke slots to use. It defaults to 0, which means automatic. Having a higher number of optimistic unchoke slots mean you will find the good peers faster but with the trade-off to use up more bandwidth. When this is set to 0, libtorrent opens up 20% of your allowed upload slots as optimistic unchoke slots. .. _default_est_reciprocation_rate: .. _increase_est_reciprocation_rate: .. _decrease_est_reciprocation_rate: .. raw:: html +---------------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================================+======+=========+ | default_est_reciprocation_rate | int | 16000 | +---------------------------------+------+---------+ | increase_est_reciprocation_rate | int | 20 | +---------------------------------+------+---------+ | decrease_est_reciprocation_rate | int | 3 | +---------------------------------+------+---------+ ``default_est_reciprocation_rate`` is the assumed reciprocation rate from peers when using the BitTyrant choker. This defaults to 14 kiB/s. If set too high, you will over-estimate your peers and be more altruistic while finding the true reciprocation rate, if it's set too low, you'll be too stingy and waste finding the true reciprocation rate. ``increase_est_reciprocation_rate`` specifies how many percent the extimated reciprocation rate should be increased by each unchoke interval a peer is still choking us back. This defaults to 20%. This only applies to the BitTyrant choker. ``decrease_est_reciprocation_rate`` specifies how many percent the estimated reciprocation rate should be decreased by each unchoke interval a peer unchokes us. This default to 3%. This only applies to the BitTyrant choker. .. _max_pex_peers: .. raw:: html +---------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===============+======+=========+ | max_pex_peers | int | 50 | +---------------+------+---------+ the max number of peers we accept from pex messages from a single peer. this limits the number of concurrent peers any of our peers claims to be connected to. If they clain to be connected to more than this, we'll ignore any peer that exceeds this limit .. _tick_interval: .. raw:: html +---------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===============+======+=========+ | tick_interval | int | 500 | +---------------+------+---------+ ``tick_interval`` specifies the number of milliseconds between internal ticks. This is the frequency with which bandwidth quota is distributed to peers. It should not be more than one second (i.e. 1000 ms). Setting this to a low value (around 100) means higher resolution bandwidth quota distribution, setting it to a higher value saves CPU cycles. .. _share_mode_target: .. raw:: html +-------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===================+======+=========+ | share_mode_target | int | 3 | +-------------------+------+---------+ ``share_mode_target`` specifies the target share ratio for share mode torrents. This defaults to 3, meaning we'll try to upload 3 times as much as we download. Setting this very high, will make it very conservative and you might end up not downloading anything ever (and not affecting your share ratio). It does not make any sense to set this any lower than 2. For instance, if only 3 peers need to download the rarest piece, it's impossible to download a single piece and upload it more than 3 times. If the share_mode_target is set to more than 3, nothing is downloaded. .. _upload_rate_limit: .. _download_rate_limit: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | upload_rate_limit | int | 0 | +---------------------+------+---------+ | download_rate_limit | int | 0 | +---------------------+------+---------+ ``upload_rate_limit``, ``download_rate_limit``, ``local_upload_rate_limit`` and ``local_download_rate_limit`` sets the session-global limits of upload and download rate limits, in bytes per second. The local rates refer to peers on the local network. By default peers on the local network are not rate limited. These rate limits are only used for local peers (peers within the same subnet as the client itself) and it is only used when ``ignore_limits_on_local_network`` is set to true (which it is by default). These rate limits default to unthrottled, but can be useful in case you want to treat local peers preferentially, but not quite unthrottled. A value of 0 means unlimited. .. _dht_upload_rate_limit: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=========+ | dht_upload_rate_limit | int | 4000 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ ``dht_upload_rate_limit`` sets the rate limit on the DHT. This is specified in bytes per second and defaults to 4000. For busy boxes with lots of torrents that requires more DHT traffic, this should be raised. .. _unchoke_slots_limit: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | unchoke_slots_limit | int | 8 | +---------------------+------+---------+ ``unchoke_slots_limit`` is the max number of unchoked peers in the session. The number of unchoke slots may be ignored depending on what ``choking_algorithm`` is set to. .. _connections_limit: .. raw:: html +-------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===================+======+=========+ | connections_limit | int | 200 | +-------------------+------+---------+ ``connections_limit`` sets a global limit on the number of connections opened. The number of connections is set to a hard minimum of at least two per torrent, so if you set a too low connections limit, and open too many torrents, the limit will not be met. .. _connections_slack: .. raw:: html +-------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===================+======+=========+ | connections_slack | int | 10 | +-------------------+------+---------+ ``connections_slack`` is the the number of incoming connections exceeding the connection limit to accept in order to potentially replace existing ones. .. _utp_target_delay: .. _utp_gain_factor: .. _utp_min_timeout: .. _utp_syn_resends: .. _utp_fin_resends: .. _utp_num_resends: .. _utp_connect_timeout: .. _utp_loss_multiplier: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | utp_target_delay | int | 100 | +---------------------+------+---------+ | utp_gain_factor | int | 3000 | +---------------------+------+---------+ | utp_min_timeout | int | 500 | +---------------------+------+---------+ | utp_syn_resends | int | 2 | +---------------------+------+---------+ | utp_fin_resends | int | 2 | +---------------------+------+---------+ | utp_num_resends | int | 3 | +---------------------+------+---------+ | utp_connect_timeout | int | 3000 | +---------------------+------+---------+ | utp_loss_multiplier | int | 50 | +---------------------+------+---------+ ``utp_target_delay`` is the target delay for uTP sockets in milliseconds. A high value will make uTP connections more aggressive and cause longer queues in the upload bottleneck. It cannot be too low, since the noise in the measurements would cause it to send too slow. The default is 50 milliseconds. ``utp_gain_factor`` is the number of bytes the uTP congestion window can increase at the most in one RTT. This defaults to 300 bytes. If this is set too high, the congestion controller reacts too hard to noise and will not be stable, if it's set too low, it will react slow to congestion and not back off as fast. ``utp_min_timeout`` is the shortest allowed uTP socket timeout, specified in milliseconds. This defaults to 500 milliseconds. The timeout depends on the RTT of the connection, but is never smaller than this value. A connection times out when every packet in a window is lost, or when a packet is lost twice in a row (i.e. the resent packet is lost as well). The shorter the timeout is, the faster the connection will recover from this situation, assuming the RTT is low enough. ``utp_syn_resends`` is the number of SYN packets that are sent (and timed out) before giving up and closing the socket. ``utp_num_resends`` is the number of times a packet is sent (and lossed or timed out) before giving up and closing the connection. ``utp_connect_timeout`` is the number of milliseconds of timeout for the initial SYN packet for uTP connections. For each timed out packet (in a row), the timeout is doubled. ``utp_loss_multiplier`` controls how the congestion window is changed when a packet loss is experienced. It's specified as a percentage multiplier for ``cwnd``. By default it's set to 50 (i.e. cut in half). Do not change this value unless you know what you're doing. Never set it higher than 100. .. _mixed_mode_algorithm: .. raw:: html +----------------------+------+----------------------------------+ | name | type | default | +======================+======+==================================+ | mixed_mode_algorithm | int | settings_pack::peer_proportional | +----------------------+------+----------------------------------+ The ``mixed_mode_algorithm`` determines how to treat TCP connections when there are uTP connections. Since uTP is designed to yield to TCP, there's an inherent problem when using swarms that have both TCP and uTP connections. If nothing is done, uTP connections would often be starved out for bandwidth by the TCP connections. This mode is ``prefer_tcp``. The ``peer_proportional`` mode simply looks at the current throughput and rate limits all TCP connections to their proportional share based on how many of the connections are TCP. This works best if uTP connections are not rate limited by the global rate limiter (which they aren't by default). .. _listen_queue_size: .. raw:: html +-------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===================+======+=========+ | listen_queue_size | int | 5 | +-------------------+------+---------+ ``listen_queue_size`` is the value passed in to listen() for the listen socket. It is the number of outstanding incoming connections to queue up while we're not actively waiting for a connection to be accepted. The default is 5 which should be sufficient for any normal client. If this is a high performance server which expects to receive a lot of connections, or used in a simulator or test, it might make sense to raise this number. It will not take affect until listen_on() is called again (or for the first time). .. _torrent_connect_boost: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=========+ | torrent_connect_boost | int | 10 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ ``torrent_connect_boost`` is the number of peers to try to connect to immediately when the first tracker response is received for a torrent. This is a boost to given to new torrents to accelerate them starting up. The normal connect scheduler is run once every second, this allows peers to be connected immediately instead of waiting for the session tick to trigger connections. .. _alert_queue_size: .. raw:: html +------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==================+======+=========+ | alert_queue_size | int | 1000 | +------------------+------+---------+ ``alert_queue_size`` is the maximum number of alerts queued up internally. If alerts are not popped, the queue will eventually fill up to this level. .. _max_metadata_size: .. raw:: html +-------------------+------+------------------+ | name | type | default | +===================+======+==================+ | max_metadata_size | int | 3 * 1024 * 10240 | +-------------------+------+------------------+ ``max_metadata_size`` is the maximum allowed size (in bytes) to be received by the metadata extension, i.e. magnet links. .. _hashing_threads: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | hashing_threads | int | 1 | +-----------------+------+---------+ ``hashing_threads`` is the number of threads to use for piece hash verification. It defaults to 1. For very high download rates, on machines with multiple cores, this could be incremented. Setting it higher than the number of CPU cores would presumably not provide any benefit of setting it to the number of cores. If it's set to 0, hashing is done in the disk thread. .. _checking_mem_usage: .. raw:: html +--------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +====================+======+=========+ | checking_mem_usage | int | 256 | +--------------------+------+---------+ the number of blocks to keep outstanding at any given time when checking torrents. Higher numbers give faster re-checks but uses more memory. Specified in number of 16 kiB blocks .. _predictive_piece_announce: .. raw:: html +---------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===========================+======+=========+ | predictive_piece_announce | int | 0 | +---------------------------+------+---------+ if set to > 0, pieces will be announced to other peers before they are fully downloaded (and before they are hash checked). The intention is to gain 1.5 potential round trip times per downloaded piece. When non-zero, this indicates how many milliseconds in advance pieces should be announced, before they are expected to be completed. .. _aio_threads: .. _aio_max: .. raw:: html +-------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=============+======+=========+ | aio_threads | int | 4 | +-------------+------+---------+ | aio_max | int | 300 | +-------------+------+---------+ for some aio back-ends, ``aio_threads`` specifies the number of io-threads to use, and ``aio_max`` the max number of outstanding jobs. .. _network_threads: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | network_threads | int | 0 | +-----------------+------+---------+ ``network_threads`` is the number of threads to use to call ``async_write_some`` (i.e. send) on peer connection sockets. When seeding at extremely high rates, this may become a bottleneck, and setting this to 2 or more may parallelize that cost. When using SSL torrents, all encryption for outgoing traffic is done withint the socket send functions, and this will help parallelizing the cost of SSL encryption as well. .. _ssl_listen: .. raw:: html +------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +============+======+=========+ | ssl_listen | int | 4433 | +------------+------+---------+ ``ssl_listen`` sets the listen port for SSL connections. If this is set to 0, no SSL listen port is opened. Otherwise a socket is opened on this port. This setting is only taken into account when opening the regular listen port, and won't re-open the listen socket simply by changing this setting. .. _tracker_backoff: .. raw:: html +-----------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=================+======+=========+ | tracker_backoff | int | 250 | +-----------------+------+---------+ ``tracker_backoff`` determines how aggressively to back off from retrying failing trackers. This value determines *x* in the following formula, determining the number of seconds to wait until the next retry: delay = 5 + 5 * x / 100 * fails^2 This setting may be useful to make libtorrent more or less aggressive in hitting trackers. .. _share_ratio_limit: .. _seed_time_ratio_limit: .. raw:: html +-----------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=======================+======+=========+ | share_ratio_limit | int | 200 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ | seed_time_ratio_limit | int | 700 | +-----------------------+------+---------+ when a seeding torrent reaches eaither the share ratio (bytes up / bytes down) or the seed time ratio (seconds as seed / seconds as downloader) or the seed time limit (seconds as seed) it is considered done, and it will leave room for other torrents these are specified as percentages .. _peer_turnover: .. _peer_turnover_cutoff: .. _peer_turnover_interval: .. raw:: html +------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +========================+======+=========+ | peer_turnover | int | 4 | +------------------------+------+---------+ | peer_turnover_cutoff | int | 90 | +------------------------+------+---------+ | peer_turnover_interval | int | 300 | +------------------------+------+---------+ peer_turnover is the percentage of peers to disconnect every turnover peer_turnover_interval (if we're at the peer limit), this is specified in percent when we are connected to more than limit * peer_turnover_cutoff peers disconnect peer_turnover fraction of the peers. It is specified in percent peer_turnover_interval is the interval (in seconds) between optimistic disconnects if the disconnects happen and how many peers are disconnected is controlled by peer_turnover and peer_turnover_cutoff .. _connect_seed_every_n_download: .. raw:: html +-------------------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +===============================+======+=========+ | connect_seed_every_n_download | int | 10 | +-------------------------------+------+---------+ this setting controls the priority of downloading torrents over seeding or finished torrents when it comes to making peer connections. Peer connections are throttled by the connection_speed and the half-open connection limit. This makes peer connections a limited resource. Torrents that still have pieces to download are prioritized by default, to avoid having many seeding torrents use most of the connection attempts and only give one peer every now and then to the downloading torrent. libtorrent will loop over the downloading torrents to connect a peer each, and every n:th connection attempt, a finished torrent is picked to be allowed to connect to a peer. This setting controls n. .. _max_http_recv_buffer_size: .. raw:: html +---------------------------+------+------------+ | name | type | default | +===========================+======+============+ | max_http_recv_buffer_size | int | 4*1024*204 | +---------------------------+------+------------+ the max number of bytes to allow an HTTP response to be when announcing to trackers or downloading .torrent files via the ``url`` provided in ``add_torrent_params``. .. _max_retry_port_bind: .. raw:: html +---------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +=====================+======+=========+ | max_retry_port_bind | int | 10 | +---------------------+------+---------+ if binding to a specific port fails, should the port be incremented by one and tried again? This setting specifies how many times to retry a failed port bind .. _alert_mask: .. raw:: html +------------+------+---------------------------+ | name | type | default | +============+======+===========================+ | alert_mask | int | alert::error_notification | +------------+------+---------------------------+ a bitmask combining flags from alert::category_t defining which kinds of alerts to receive .. _out_enc_policy: .. _in_enc_policy: .. raw:: html +----------------+------+---------------------------+ | name | type | default | +================+======+===========================+ | out_enc_policy | int | settings_pack::pe_enabled | +----------------+------+---------------------------+ | in_enc_policy | int | settings_pack::pe_enabled | +----------------+------+---------------------------+ control the settings for incoming and outgoing connections respectively. see enc_policy enum for the available options. Keep in mind that protocol encryption degrades performance in several respects: 1. It prevents "zero copy" disk buffers being sent to peers, since each peer needs to mutate the data (i.e. encrypt it) the data must be copied per peer connection rather than sending the same buffer to multiple peers. 2. The encryption itself requires more CPU than plain bittorrent protocol. The highest cost is the Diffie Hellman exchange on connection setup. 3. The encryption handshake adds several round-trips to the connection setup, and delays transferring data. .. _allowed_enc_level: .. raw:: html +-------------------+------+------------------------+ | name | type | default | +===================+======+========================+ | allowed_enc_level | int | settings_pack::pe_both | +-------------------+------+------------------------+ determines the encryption level of the connections. This setting will adjust which encryption scheme is offered to the other peer, as well as which encryption scheme is selected by the client. See enc_level enum for options. .. _inactive_down_rate: .. _inactive_up_rate: .. raw:: html +--------------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +====================+======+=========+ | inactive_down_rate | int | 2048 | +--------------------+------+---------+ | inactive_up_rate | int | 2048 | +--------------------+------+---------+ the download and upload rate limits for a torrent to be considered active by the queuing mechanism. A torrent whose download rate is less than ``inactive_down_rate`` and whose upload rate is less than ``inactive_up_rate`` for ``auto_manage_startup`` seconds, is considered inactive, and another queued torrent may be startert. This logic is disabled if ``dont_count_slow_torrents`` is false. .. _proxy_type: .. raw:: html +------------+------+---------------------+ | name | type | default | +============+======+=====================+ | proxy_type | int | settings_pack::none | +------------+------+---------------------+ proxy to use, defaults to none. see proxy_type_t. .. _proxy_port: .. raw:: html +------------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +============+======+=========+ | proxy_port | int | 0 | +------------+------+---------+ the port of the proxy server .. _i2p_port: .. raw:: html +----------+------+---------+ | name | type | default | +==========+======+=========+ | i2p_port | int | 0 | +----------+------+---------+ sets the i2p_ SAM bridge port to connect to. set the hostname with the ``i2p_hostname`` setting. .. _i2p: http://www.i2p2.de