I've been using Tixati for a while now with much love, but I've always found it weird that my seeding torrents seem to only see a handful of peers. Out of curiosity, I installed qBittorrent and added the exact same torrents to it, to see how they behave.

In some cases, I see drastic differences between Tixati and qBittorrent in the number of peers seen for a given torrent. For example, one popular torrent lists 130 seeds and 320 peers in qBittorrent, but Tixati only reports 40 seeds and 0 peers on it.

Is this normal, and just a difference between how the two clients discover and report peers, or should I be concerned that I'm invisible to most of the peers out there? Also, is there an accurate way to "survey" torrents for health in Tixati? I heavily rely on these numbers to decide which torrents are way too healthy for me to quit seeding them in favor of my dying ones that need urgent help.

Any explanation and insight is very welcome and appreciated.

In the meantime I've learned that peers are properly discovered under the Trackers tab. It is just that, for some reason, they're not shown in the Status column of the transfer. I guess the question then is: what do the numbers in the Status indicate, if not the total count of available seeds and peers?

those numbers indicate how many peers tixati has actually dealt with in some way, and knows about for sure.

Thanks for the reply. Should I be concerned that the number is just a small fragment of all the peers reported by the tracker? Is this a case of Tixati not connecting to some peers, or rather a case of the tracker reporting inaccurate numbers?

its a case of tixati not getting to them yet. they may not be needed if your bandwidth is at capacity.

Gotcha, thank you very much.

Guest is right. The other bittorrent client most likely reports in status column peers number given by a tracker. Every bittorent program connects only a subset of all available peers.

I have noticed the same - tracker reports 6 seeds, but Tixati tries to connect to only 2 or 3. All other times Tixati tries to connect to even offline peers and reports if timed out or remoted-dc. Also Tixati quite often  drops connections after downloading for a few seconds, but im too tired to report a bug here, because i dont think anybody cares much.

How do you know that Tixati drops connections, maybe the remote peer does.

My guess at some point you were playing in settings. In tixati you can have max peers for downloads and max peers for uploads. I would guess you changed the upload setting. This is a good thing to do, if you did that then you were using good logic. If you seed to 5 instead of 100 then the five will have a constant feed, they will seed to five more etc. To add to that the speed you seed to those five will be optimized because of less protocol traffic. The object is to be uploading at your max speed (you can) not uploading to max peers.