No Seeding at all.

[absolutep]

Describe the bug

Since past two weeks, seeding has significantly deteriorated.

It doesn't matter if you become a exit node or not. It doesn't matter if you are anonymous or non-anonymous.

Before that the problem was #6801

To Reproduce

Download any newly released or old torrent.
Seeding will only happen till download is going on and then it stops altogether. Even though, seeders & leecher number regularly update.

Expected behavior

Tribler should be able to seed any & all torrents in non-anonymous mode.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10 - up-to-date
• Tribler's version 7.11.0

Additional context

I think Tribler is still suffering from the lack of exit nodes as well as the issue of torrent clients rejecting requests (from Tribler exit node) due to DHT calls coming from single source or port etc.. Both of which has been discussed in length by Tribler team.

Even in non-anonymous mode when it is supposed to work as a normal torrent client I am facing such issue.

As a possible solution, I am requesting Tribler team to look into either #6743 or #6737 - to check if they are viable & applicable solutions to solve seeding issue or not.

[DominikNovosel]

Ditto. This is what my token balance looks like after downloading some stuff and letting it seed overnight undisturbed:

It's not great, to say the least.

[absolutep]

a reminder for tribler team

[drew2a]

@absolutep thank you for opening an issue.

We didn't do anything related to seeding (except #6736) so, seeding should not be affected by changes from the source code.

I tried to download Ubuntu and it works perfectly (Tribler has been run from the main branch):

Could it be something related to your local settings?

[Solomon1732]

For some reason mine doesn't seed as well. I'm using a fresh install of 7.12.1 on Windows 10.
Edit: I've been running it for days.

The only setting I changed (as far as I remember) is to activate minimize to tray. Here are my settings:

[synctext]

Sorry for the long wait! We're re-visiting all known old bugs and will spend multiple months fixing them all. Critical issue is always reproducing them. If we manage to re-produce the issue, it will be solved 🐛

@absolutep That is very insightful statistics! Your report from on 8 Apr 2022 shows only 1 active seeding swarm, the remainder is idle. Are you seeding over 10 or 15+ swarms? Did things get better with the latest 7.13 release? We have a fresh 7.13.1 for you soon to try.

@Solomon1732 You issue seems to be different. In anonymous mode you only seed using a novel "end-to-end" encrypted protocol, with Tor-like anonymizing proxies. Only Tribler clients support this. So you will only able to seed to other Tribler client. Only 50.000 or so are active currently. Please keep it up and help spread this new protocol 🥇

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[qstokkink]

I tried to find more information and I found that there has been a discussion on our upstream dependency libtorrent that addresses this issue: arvidn/libtorrent#6512 (including part of the Tribler team). The issue is still open though.

Provided that I interpreted the issue correctly, it seems like upgrading to the libtorrent 2.x series will fix this issue.