Mafl001 Posted October 31, 2006 Report Posted October 31, 2006 Hi,my computer freezes whenever I have utorrent on. It can run for an hour or even a day without freezing, but when it does freeze I loose lots of files. I can't predict when it freezes, and the event log doesn't seem to be showing any problems at all. I am downloading 3 torrents of +/- 8.5 GBHere is some info about my system:- no incompatible sftware- Intel Pentium 4, Windows XP with service pack 2- Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC - Panda Antivirus Software 2006 /w firewall installed- Lynksis Router model nr.: BEFW11S4v4- patch used to change the number of half open connections to 100- net.max_halfopen 80 (utorrent)- port forwarding done correctly- global max upload rate = 15- global max download rate = 60- global max nr of connections = 125- max nr of connected peers per torrent = 50- number of upload slots per torrent = 5- My download speeds are between 10KB/s and 20KB/s (rather slow I think )- 4Mb Internet connectionIs there sth I should change? or do?Please, I could use some good advice. I thank u in advance
Ultima Posted October 31, 2006 Report Posted October 31, 2006 Start > Run > devmgmt.mscCheck your IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers (primary and secondary). If either one has a current transfer mode of PIO in the advanced tab of the properties, then try switching it to DMA.
Mafl001 Posted October 31, 2006 Author Report Posted October 31, 2006 Thanks for the reply Ultima,They are all on DMA mode (primary and secondary)Any more advice?
Switeck Posted October 31, 2006 Report Posted October 31, 2006 If you are running more than 1 torrent at once, your upload speed is too low for the total number of upload slots (2 torrents x 5 upload slots each = 10 upload slots...so each one gets only about 1.5 KB/sec).Try reducing upload slots to the default of 4 and check use additional upload slots if upload speed <90%.Reduce net.max_halfopen back to the default value of 8...even try 4-6 if that doesn't help. This is the most likely cause of problems -- probably your firewall, router, or modem cannot handle this high rate and 'talks trash' back to your computer...causing the crashes.
Mafl001 Posted November 1, 2006 Author Report Posted November 1, 2006 I've reduced net.max_halfopen to 8, 6 and 4, but the pc continues to crash. Can it be because of the patch?Any more ideas? Am becoming desperate now
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