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Disk Overloaded 100% in 3.3.2 (Build 30303)


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Hello,

I keep facing this problem for quite a long time now, and nothing seems to help resolve it.

From time to time, uTorrent keeps overloading a disk, and DL speed drops drastically.

When this happens, UT won't close its process after closing UT itself, and it will keep running in processes, which won't allow to start another copy of UT, until I manually End Process.

I have a rather slow Internet, so I guess it's not the real reason for disk overload. My DL speed is 1.4 MB/s max.

I even did a full UT reinstall with deleting all of its settings, and then manually re-adding all of the torrent files, hoping that it was my fault in previous install, because I might have edited some settings incorrectly.

But it did not help.

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What else should I provide to help identify the reason of a problem?

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1) run the latest stable build: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=137620

2) make the "CTRL+G" setup guide - it seems that you run utorrent with wrong settings.

3) thanks for using the search function of the forums which brings you already more than enough posts to this "user bug" ... http://forum.utorrent.com/search.php?search_id=1294091948

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I keep facing this problem for quite a long time now, and nothing seems to help resolve it.

From time to time, uTorrent keeps overloading a disk, and DL speed drops drastically.

 

What else should I provide to help identify the reason of a problem?

 

1. You need to upgrade to the latest 3.4.1 beta

2. Regardless, you need better settings (like mine, below...)

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1. You need to upgrade to the latest 3.4.1 beta

2. Regardless, you need better settings (like mine, below...)

 

 
Sigh
 
I am pretty sure this wont help you out.
 
The real problem here is when utorrent is trying to reserve the space when new torrent is added. There is few tricks you can make to stop this "bug" but devs should really take care of this problem. It happened after all 3x versions and its really annoying.
So what is actually happening when download is started the program is caching everything you download into RAM while its trying to reserve disk space for the torrent. Eventually (depends on your current settings (i have 128 MB cache by default)) program reach the limit of cache used and its trying to write it on the disk, BUT for some reason new versions of the program cannot reserve that fast cannot download more because there is no cache left /disk busy/ and voala you get that annoying warning message "Disk Overloaded".
However manually overriding cache in settings [Advanced users recommended] (CTRL+P > Advanced > Disk Cache > Override automatic cache size) bigger than 128 Mb or actually 512/1024 Mb/+ will be good idea for lets say 1-2 Gb torrent files. This trick is NOT recommended for users who have less then 4 GB of RAM. 
 
For users like me who have optic network and download speed exceed 100 Mbps+ will have to wait for new release because the trick above does not help with 18 MB/s download speed. Even if i set 2 GB cache after 30 seconds it will reach the limit and it will keep trying to write-to-disk while reserve process is still in progress. Imagine adding 20 Gb torrent - it takes forever... 5 mins+ ...
I guess people who have SSD drives does not have this kind of problems :)
 
So devs please keep in mind that users like me who use your program from years now really need that fix to go live asap.
 
Kind regards,
server_
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I'm tired of this 100% disk usage issue. It started about 2 months ago, I think.

 

I have two HDDs; let's call them disk 0 and 1. Windows and utorrent are installed on disk 0. Torrent download location is set to disk 1.

 

Every single time that I start a rather large torrent, disk activity jumps to 100% for minutes and freezes my computer, and sometimes keeps happening every 15-20 minutes too.

 

It only happens on disk 0 though. A lot of that disk activity seem to be coming from "Service host: Local System (Network restricted)".

 

It usually goes away after a while but still I know that my PC will be unusable whenever I add a big torrent.

I use windows 8.1 64-bit, fully updated.

 

Any chance you at least know what's causing this?

 

P.S. My download speed is less than 8 mbps (1 MB/s), so that's not the casue.

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I also faced the same issue for large torrents. Using windows 8.1 utorrent 3.4.2 build (34537). Disk overload once I try to torrent anything bigger than 10GB, regardless of download speed.

Solution for me was to enable diskio.sparse_files However, note that this may not work for all. Prerequisite required.

More information can be found here. http://www.bittorrent.com/help/manual/appendixa0212#diskio.sparse_files

Hopes this helps.

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Ok, I found out something that might help remedy this issue.

In windows' advanced system settings, I had unchecked the "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" and set it manually to drive C: only, which is the default, unless you define a size for each drive.

This caused a terrible disk overload. Enabling back the automatic option helped with this problem a lot.

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I found the solution. Mainly, problem occurs when using external USB drives. All you need is to enable charging via USB port. Without this option drives has insufficient voltage. For example in my Sony VAIO you can find this option in VAIO Control Center.

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Sigh
 
I am pretty sure this wont help you out.
 
The real problem here is when utorrent is trying to reserve the space when new torrent is added. There is few tricks you can make to stop this "bug" but devs should really take care of this problem. It happened after all 3x versions and its really annoying.
So what is actually happening when download is started the program is caching everything you download into RAM while its trying to reserve disk space for the torrent. Eventually (depends on your current settings (i have 128 MB cache by default)) program reach the limit of cache used and its trying to write it on the disk, BUT for some reason new versions of the program cannot reserve that fast cannot download more because there is no cache left /disk busy/ and voala you get that annoying warning message "Disk Overloaded".
However manually overriding cache in settings [Advanced users recommended] (CTRL+P > Advanced > Disk Cache > Override automatic cache size) bigger than 128 Mb or actually 512/1024 Mb/+ will be good idea for lets say 1-2 Gb torrent files. This trick is NOT recommended for users who have less then 4 GB of RAM. 
 
For users like me who have optic network and download speed exceed 100 Mbps+ will have to wait for new release because the trick above does not help with 18 MB/s download speed. Even if i set 2 GB cache after 30 seconds it will reach the limit and it will keep trying to write-to-disk while reserve process is still in progress. Imagine adding 20 Gb torrent - it takes forever... 5 mins+ ...
I guess people who have SSD drives does not have this kind of problems :)
 
So devs please keep in mind that users like me who use your program from years now really need that fix to go live asap.
 
Kind regards,
server_

 

I have an SSD(Crucial M550 256GB) and a 100Mb connection and that issue came up as well. I has to set the cache size to 1gb to resolve it.

 

Task manager showed ~10-20%  disk usage.

 

This issue seems to be unrelated to the actual  performance of the mass storage.

 

It was also present on my  HDD-s of various speed  too.

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