davros303 Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 Hi everyone, Thought I would share this to save some other poor shmuck 2 days of troubleshooting to diagnose the issue. I have been running an old version of utorrent - 2.2,1 for quite some time, mainly because I believe in sticking with stable versions of software to limit the amount of time I have to work "on" the system. 2 days ago I started getting major freezes across multiple applications - Windows File Explorer, Chrome, utorrent - even Task Manager would crash and freeze. The only way to get out was to force a reset. There was nothing recorded in the Event Viewer logs, I rigorously tested all the hard drives, memory, a complete virus scan, uninstalled the last dozen programs and updates, you name it - installed ALL the Windows 7 available updates, removed optional add ons to the shell. Nothing worked, and none of the diagnostic tools were telling me what the issue was. Everything came back green. I was about to concede defeat and reinstall windows and start from scratch, when I noticed these issues were occuring in a sequence, and only after I had utorrent running with a fast transfer speed (approx 2.5 mb/s). That's when I spotted the "Disk Overload 100%" error in the utorrent client footer, and that the xfer speed would drop to only a few kb/s. I then attempted all of the published fixes for the Disk Overload issue - increasing the disk cache, changing some of the Advanced settings - nothing worked. Until I updated to the current version 3.5.4 Lesson learned. I have since found a few articles on major updates to the way utorrent handles multiple threads since vers 2.2.1 so now I think I finally have my answer. The thing I cannot fathom, is how none of diagnostic tools were able to pick this up. Anyway, I hope someone else reads this and saves themselves a ton of time! Cheers, Davros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike20021969 Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 It's always beneficial to use the latest releases, but something must have occured 2 days ago to cause the issue. Did you not have a fast transfer rate up until 2 days ago...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davros303 Posted December 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2018 I've wondered the same thing myself. I got fast internet almost 6 months ago but never encountered this issue. There was one torrent in particular that was guaranteed to trigger the Disk Overload, and it had a high number of peers (365) and a low number of seeds (8 or so). I could achieve high transfer speeds with a high seed ratio and it wouldn't cause this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiusX Posted December 22, 2018 Report Share Posted December 22, 2018 Advice stay with the 2.2.1 and avoid all the catastrophic of v3 generations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike20021969 Posted December 22, 2018 Report Share Posted December 22, 2018 4 hours ago, PiusX said: Advice stay with the 2.2.1 and avoid all the catastrophic of v3 generations. Idiotic to suggest that. You're "help" is total garbage, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiusX Posted February 4, 2019 Report Share Posted February 4, 2019 And those telling you to go v3 is also feeding you more garbage....a simple online search and you will see why. My 2.0.4 works just fine no adware no spying no tracking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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