1c3d0g Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 That would probably make memory consumption go way up (I'm just guessing). There has got to be a way though to let them play nice...I still think the Google developers should be informed about this. THey have bright minds at work there, they can figure something out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 I've been doing some more searching on these forums. Try setting diskio.flush_files to false. See if that makes the problem go away.Appearantly, having that set to true will cause utorrent to close all open files every 60 seconds. If GDesktop tries to open one in that time period, bam. Seems like this might work.Edit: Oh, and as far as I care, screw memory consumption. I don't have a gig of RAM for no reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Um, µTorrent doesn't try to close all open files. It tries to close its own internal handles on the files. Meaning it lets go of the files from memory (or something to that effect). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Um, µTorrent doesn't try to close all open files. It tries to close its own internal handles on the files.Ummm.. You say that as if those are different in any meaningful way. Meaning it lets go of the files from memory (or something to that effect).You can have a file open in one of two modes. Read, or write. If you, as a program, try to open a file in write mode, and somebody else is reading it or writing it or whatever, then you get a big fat denied. Requesting write mode access to a file is basically requesting exclusive access.Read mode is different. Any number of processes can open the file in read only mode at once.Standard File IO stuff, that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 When you said it "close all open files," I got the impression that you meant that µTorrent closed all handles of the file in memory for any application, so that no other application can open the file. I guess not though ;P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Posted November 11, 2005 Report Share Posted November 11, 2005 Ah... No, it couldn't do that without some really unusual code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 ...Edit: Oh, and as far as I care, screw memory consumption. I don't have a gig of RAM for no reason. This is troubling...I don't know about you, but I hope µTorrent never becomes a RAM guzzler... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 FWIW, setting diskio.flush_files to false seems to have fixed the problem for me. It was happening every 3 or 4 minutes, now it's been running for a couple hours with no issues at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taromsn Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 Ok, now the torrent error bubble keeps flashing, even though my download is still running.Oh, and when the error really occurs, I've noticed that the Ogg Vorbis Movieshow Filter flashes in the System Tray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 Don't view the folder the files are in. Explorer has a shell extension which scans media files for information and makes thumbnails of a video frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkman Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 Umm, I did try to warn the users and developers about this some time ago, but I guess no-one listened and now that flush_files is set by default this problem will keep cropping up.http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=1500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 Look man, it's either this or n00bs complaining about high memory usage...which one is it going to be? :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuhairmahd Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 I have Google desktop, and I happily used the 1.7X build. It was only after I updated to 1.2 that this all started. Anyone got a copy of 1.7X around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 You can still download it from the download page... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musashi13 Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 I am having the same problem. That error message came up a few times with larger files. I have made the suggested changes including excluding Google deaktop from the folder used to d/l into (yes, I have it too and I think it may be the culprit cos other progs have been acting strangly since I installed it).Will check back later when I have some results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyck15 Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 Just wanted to reply and say that setting diskio.flush_files to false has fixed this issue for me as well. Seems memory usage has increased from about 4MBs to 7MBs, but if thats what I have to sacrifice to have my µtorrent back, then thats what I shall sacrifice! FYI I am a Google Desktop user, so it seems that GD+µTorrent1.2 is definately the cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 Thanks for confirming this. Someone should point the developers of both programs to this thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuhairmahd Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 agreed. Turning the flush files fixed it for me too. I'm wondering though if there is an optimum value for the queue size? Would be interesting to experiment with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibba Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 (Pub Account)I just wanted to say that Google Desktop is NOT the cause of the problem, as Im running UTorrent on a freshly formatted system (no google desktop) and its popping up this problem every minute or so. Its very annoying having to reset them. I excluded the folder in my A/V and it still happened. It didnt happen in my last install so I have no clue what could make it happen now. The diskio.flush_files did not work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuhairmahd Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 try setting your destination to a secondary drive, such as D: or some other fixed disk if you have one. This fixed it for me, along of course setting Google desktop not to index that drive. If Google had nothing to do with it, maybe setting the destination to a secondary drive did it. Would be interesting to find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 off-topic: CTRL-SHIFT-ESC opens the task manager on all XP installations, CTRL-ALT-DEL usually does the same on any OS but in some domain-networked installations it brings up a different screen from which you need to click "Task Manager" to get to it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 splintax, CTRL ALT DEL shows a different screen if you don't use the Welcome screen for Windows XP. Windows 2000 also shows the same screen always, domain or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoovious Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 Also, go into the properties of the drive you save to, or the top-level folder you save to, and make sure indexing is turned off.Oh, and enough of this ^alt-esc or ^alt-del banter... the common denominator is to use ^alt-del, no matter what version of windows you're using, because it will bring up what you want... In 2000 and XP, etc, you'll get a menu of a few options including task manager... so you have to pick task manager... big deal...^alt-del is common to all versions of windows, except 3x... and you wouldn't be running µT on a 3x installation anyways.^alt-del is all-inclusive... ^alt-esc isn't... so leave it alone...If the worst thing you have to nit-pick about is having a short-cut that isn't available to everyone, not used, maybe you should get out of the house.(you know who 'you' refers to)(not you... you...)-- Smoovious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jroc Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 lol!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibba Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 I propose a simple solution to the problem is a modification to the uTorrent program, where it automatically tries to restart torrents that have been stopped due to an error. Whenever I get this error (which I get alot, and I tried playing with Antivirus and Google Desktop with no luck), I simply press "start" on the torrent again, and it works like magic. Having the uTorrent program automatically do this, so I can walk away from my computer and do other things, would be wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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