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 We'll start with the installation of a **Transmission** server, based on a [[vms:debian|Debian template]].
-<Code:bash>
+=== Installation ===
+<Code:json>
 > apt-get install transmission-daemon
+</Code>
+This will start the transmission daemon process (service), it will be running under a new user created at install time: 'debian-transmission'. Note that, at the same time, a directory belonging to this same user was also created: '/var/lib/transmission-daemon'. It contains a 'downloads' folder and a symlink to the configuration directory.
+We'll create a "seeding" directory and edit the configuration file, for this we need to stop the service first:
+<Code:bash>
+> mkdir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/seeding
+> chown debian-transmission:debian-transmission /var/lib/transmission-daemon/seeding
+> service transmission-daemon stop
+> nano /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json
+</Code>
+Refering to [[https://ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-server-seeding-dht-torrents]], here are the important settings to set:
+<Code:bash>
+"download-dir": "/var/lib/transmission/seeding",
+"incomplete-dir": "/var/lib/transmission/seeding",
+"dht-enabled": true,
+"lpd-enabled": true,
+"pex-enabled": true,
+"peer-limit-per-torrent": 10,
+"port-forwarding-enabled": false,
+"queue-stalled-enabled": false,
+"speed-limit-down": 50,
+"speed-limit-down-enabled": true,
+"speed-limit-up": 50,
+"speed-limit-up-enabled": true,
+"upload-slots-per-torrent": 5,
+"user-has-given-informed-consent": true,
+"watch-dir": "/var/lib/transmission/seeding",
+"watch-dir-enabled": true,
+</Code>
+For a complete description of all options: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160428165927/https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/EditConfigFiles]]
+For detailed instructions on how to use Transmission: [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TransmissionHowTo]]
+=== System Configuration ===
+To avoid Transmission eating up all the system's resources, edit ''/lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service'':
+<Code>
+> nano /lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service
+ADD @ end of [Service] section
+[Service]
+...
+Nice=16
+IOSchedulingClass=idle
+CPUSchedulingPolicy=idle
+MemoryMax=25M
+MemoryHigh=35M
+ProtectSystem=true
+> systemctl daemon-reload
+</Code>
+Note that we reload daemons for our changes to take effect.
+===== mitorrent =====
+[[https://github.com/da2x/mitorrent]]
+First we must follow [[vms:python:dev|this installation guide]] to setup an appropriate python environment, we also need to have 'git' installed, so we can clone the GitHub repo.
+=== Install===
+<Code:bash>
+> apt-get install git-core
+> su py3
+> cd $HOME
+> git clone https://github.com/da2x/mitorrent.git
+> cd mitorrent
+> mkvirtualenv mitorrent
+> chmod +x mitorrent-runner.py
+</Code>
+===Usage===
+<Code>
+> su py3
+> cd $HOME/mitorrent
+> workon mitorrent
+> ./mitorrent-runner.py path/to/original/file > path/to/torrent/file.torrent
 </Code>