Download limit is reset after restart

[t4rl]

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Description

When rTorrent downloads at maximum speed ISP, everything else becames unusable. To combat this I always set maximum download speed just a little bit below of what ISP provides. However, after every restart, the setting is reset back to "Unlimited". This might also be happening to Upload, but I personally haven't tested this.

I might be more of a ruTorrent issue, but I am not sure.

Expected behaviour

The setting persists.

Actual behaviour

Download speed limit is set to "Unlimited"

Steps to reproduce

1. Open web UI.
2. Right click "Download Speed" on the footer and select any other besides "Unlimited".
3. Do docker compose down && docker compose up -d.
4. Reload web UI.
5. Right click "Download Speed" and see that it is back to "Unlimited" value.

Docker info

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Docker Compose config

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Logs

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Additional info

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[Killeroid]

Download (and upload) speed are set here in the .rtorrent.rc config file when the container starts. By default, they are set to unlimited.

# Global upload and download rate in KiB. "0" for unlimited
throttle.global_down.max_rate.set_kb = 0
throttle.global_up.max_rate.set_kb = 0

If you want to persist your changes to it, you will have to have override the defaults in your config.

[t4rl]

Thank you for suggestion, but tweaking config files everytime a users wants to set a permanent limit is not a viable solution. Download/upload limit set using web UI should be persistent and should be handled by rtorrent itself.

I don't mind trying to do it myself, I just need a pointer to know where to start however.

[newadventure079]

Editing .rtorrent.rc is permanent. Set the rate limits you want in that file and you're good to go

[de666]

I agree with @t4rl , the web ui settings should be persistent otherwise they are totally useless.
Also i changed the rtorrent config file but I think the webui settings shuold behave the same way, not only temporarily.
I think the idea behind ruTorrent is to manage rtorrent almost exclusively from webui without having to touch the config files and that should apply to the download limit settings too.

[Killeroid]

@de666 Yes, I agree that this would be the more user friendly option. It's something that would need to be implemented upstream in the rutorrent codebase.

I'd file a bug upstream with them instead.

@crazy-max and the team behind this docker image can't really help with this because they are not the devs behind rutorrent, they just use/include it in this image.

To be honest, I'm also not sure the rutorrent folks will see this as something they need to implement. The Rutorrent webUI is supposed to only be a frontend for rtorrent and it is not designed to be responsible for managing rtorrent's config files.

[stickz]

A possible workaround is to use the ruTorrent throttle plugin to apply a speed limit instead. It's re-enabled with the latest version of this docker image because it supports a theoretical maximum of 33 gigabits. (beyond what rTorrent can output)