MrPeepers Posted October 20, 2016 Report Posted October 20, 2016 I download some of my torrents to a network drive, and in the latest version of uTorrent it says the disk is overloaded 100% but there is almost no data being transmitted. I've tried other torrent programs and they have no issue with downloading torrents to a network drive. The speed tests I've done between the two computers are around 300Mbit
MrPeepers Posted October 20, 2016 Author Report Posted October 20, 2016 So to further explain, when I download a torrent and save it to a network drive, such as "J:" which is linked to "\\someserver\downloadfolder\" uTorrent goes into 100% Disk Usage even with none of my local disks going above 1% usage, and the computer network speed is only a few hundred kilobits, when I can totally support hundreds of megabit data transfers. It usually happens after downloading around 100 Megabytes of the torrent. Running other torrents at the same time seems to exasperate the problem, even if they're being saved locally.
rafi Posted October 20, 2016 Report Posted October 20, 2016 The explanation is that uTorrent is (sadly) trying to pre-allocate and zero the new file first. You should see that 100% overload will last only for couple of minutes. I believe it is a bug, you you can try and uncheck "pre-allocate" in preference->general. Didn't help me, tho.... Other possible w/a is download to local drive and move it to the network drive after.
PiusX Posted October 20, 2016 Report Posted October 20, 2016 10 hours ago, MrPeepers said: I download some of my torrents to a network drive, and in the latest version of uTorrent it says the disk is overloaded 100% but there is almost no data being transmitted. I've tried other torrent programs and they have no issue with downloading torrents to a network drive. The speed tests I've done between the two computers are around 300Mbit "Overloaded 100%" means something is access those very same file while utorrent is writing to the same location. You need to stop whatever other program or command your doing that otherwise you risk corrupting the torrents you download. Since no one know how your network is configured no one can really help here.
MrPeepers Posted October 21, 2016 Author Report Posted October 21, 2016 OK I seemed to have fixed it by enabling a bunch of options in the uTorrent settings after watching this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SslT4nRPUKY These are my settings now:
DreadWingKnight Posted October 21, 2016 Report Posted October 21, 2016 How to almost guarantee a crash in uTorrent.
MrPeepers Posted October 22, 2016 Author Report Posted October 22, 2016 16 hours ago, DreadWingKnight said: How to almost guarantee a crash in uTorrent. I did a test and was able to download a 30GB torrent over the course of 4 hours without a crash. However, the client does freeze up a lot. I have 16GB of RAM so 1800MB of memory for the client is not much at all. Is there any settings you recommend I change?
rafi Posted October 22, 2016 Report Posted October 22, 2016 On 10/20/2016 at 11:28 AM, rafi said: The explanation is that uTorrent is (sadly) trying to pre-allocate and zero the new file first. You should see that 100% overload will last only for couple of minutes. I believe it is a bug, you you can try and uncheck "pre-allocate" in preference->general. Didn't help me, tho.... Other possible w/a is download to local drive and move it to the network drive after. or... use my settings/@sig.. It will not help much till they'll fix the root issue.
DreadWingKnight Posted October 22, 2016 Report Posted October 22, 2016 The far better options are: 1> Download directly to the local computer and move to the network drive once you're done. 2> Run a bittorrent client on the device running the network drive instead of trying to operate over the network from a second computer.
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