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I have the latest version of qBittorrent. In settings it is set to allow 999 active torrents, yet every single day I have notices from my trackers that torrents aren't being seeded.. when I look in qBittorrent they all have this annoying clock icon which I assume is queued? Is there any way to disable this? I have all seed/rate limiting off except the global/active set to 999 which I'm nowhere close to.

Go to Options -> Bittorrent -> Uncheck queue setting.

Thanks, I had not tried unchecking queue altogether will update if this doesn't solve the problem.

Thanks for answering. I had the same problem. I unchecked it and now everything seems to properly say "seeding" on every torrent.

Why does the client behave in this way? Shouldn't it be seeding everything and not queuing seeds? Any downsides to turning off the queue feature?

It limits the number of active torrents when enabled for both seeding and downloading. If you have a slow uploadspeed having number of torrents seeding will result in slow speeds overall. When enabled qBittorrent puts some torrents in queue so the speeds are acceptable. Seeding 100 torrents all active with 1Kib/s each isn't good either. You can limit the global max uploadslots and such too for optimizing.

Im running it disabled personally. No downside as long as you have good speeds. My seeding tasks are not uploading 24/7 so I leave them all on seeding status for when new leechers are downloading they can get my upload right away.

Small quote from Vuze, works the same as with qBittorrent:

These numbers determine how many torrents run simultaneously. Do not increase the Max active torrents to too high compared to your internet connections upload bandwidth. Otherwise, you may see your download speed DETERIORATE. Make sure you are downloading good torrents, too.

Max simultaneous downloads is the maximum number of torrents downloading at any moment. Max active torrents is the maximum number of torrents you download or seed at the same time. Naturally, the number of downloads can't be larger than the number of all active (downloads + seedings)

Thanks! Okay I'll keep the queue disabled then. Based on the trackers I'm on and my use patterns, I end up uploading infrequently even though I have a lot of torrents active. This is probably the most ideal for my situation. If I were using trackers that were constantly wanting to saturate my connection, or if I were wanting to do some heavy downloading in conjunction with that, I can see where queuing would help a lot.

Yes, indeed.

You can set global max upload slots such that they would each average 5 KB/sec (or greater) and that could eliminate another potential problem -- too many uploads at once at too slow a speed.

Finished probably means uTorrent reached the max seeding ratio and stopped the torrent automatically.
Force-starting the torrent and/or disabling torrent seeding ratios might fix that.