When the disk on your shared seedbox is quiet, the whole of it is yours — full speed, whatever your plan. When several accounts hit the same disk at once, the bandwidth is now split fairly by plan tier instead of collapsing everyone into one bucket. You are never throttled on a quiet disk, and you get the priority you pay for on a busy one.
That is the result of a fix we just shipped — already in our open-source platform and rolling out across our shared hosts now. A shared disk is only ever truly contested in brief bursts: a tracker rebalance, simultaneous imports, a flurry of cross-seeding. Those bursts are exactly when priority should matter, and exactly where it had quietly stopped working. Here is what was broken, and how I found it.
What was wrong — first the origin
Between the priority a plan is meant to carry and the kernel's actual disk scheduler sits a small translation step. On the configuration our hosts run, that step has a long-standing flaw: above a certain point, every priority level was squashed to the same value. A top-tier plan and an entry-tier plan ended up identical the moment the disk was contested. The tiers were real on paper; the kernel could no longer tell them apart. This is not our bug — it is upstream, acknowledged by the maintainers in their own words, and still unfixed. Any provider running the same stack carries the same silent fault.
What I did — then the cure
I followed the translation chain to its source, confirmed it line by line, and wrote a small program that sets each account's disk priority directly at the kernel, stepping around the broken translation entirely. It re-checks itself on a schedule, so anything that overwrites the correct value is quietly put right again. It is part of PMSS, our open-source platform, under GPL — anyone running the same Debian and kernel can read it, use it, or make it their own.
The full range of priority works again, the way it was always meant to. Harmony restored. I wrote the whole story down for anyone who wants the depth — how the scheduler works, the upstream fault in the maintainers' own words, and the cure: Seedbox and Storage Box Disk Priority on our wiki.
Best Regards, Väinämöinen Pulsed Media
(Once sang worlds into being; today, taught a disk to share)
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