ZawX Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Always when i start new torrents that max out my connection i get disk overloaded and my torrent slows down to about 200kb/s (max is 1.1mb/s but can go as high as 2.3mb/s if i'm lucky) and it says Disk Overloaded down in the middle of the utorrent window.The error persists from time to time over the whole time downloading the torrent. This is getting really annoying and doesnt show when seeding torrents with maxspeed (1.2mb/s).I would love to hear if there are any special settings that can be made to minimize this problem, my harddrive is 80gb and is pretty old, memory use wont be a problem.Any suggestions welcome, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Only 3 options need to be enabled in the Disk Cache settings: Enable caching of disk writes, Enable caching of disk reads, and Increase automatic cache size when cache thrashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZawX Posted December 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Doesnt work, I unchecked everything else but the 3 things you said and i still got Disk Overloaded 100%. :-/Any other suggestions? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakergtr Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 it cud be the speed from your motherboard the the (old) HDD or maybe even the HDD itself, maybe it cant write fast enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Indeed... What kind of hard drive are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbyg2 Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 Every harddrive has a cache rating (mine is 8MB i believe) and thats how fast it writes a second at the max. You probibly have a harddrive that has a cache rating at less than your internet dl rate. Its kinda like trying to pump 20 gallons/s of water into a 10 gallon/s compatable pipe, just dosn't happen. I suggest limiting your dl rate lower until you stop getting that error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 "Every harddrive has a cache rating (mine is 8MB i believe)"I think you're confusing that with the hard drives internal RAM cache. This is RAM the hdd can use to speed up constantly-accessed small files and/or writes to the hdd that are delayed due to constant reading of other files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbyg2 Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 Did you try lowering the max dl speed? keep on lowering it untill it stops giving you that message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cableguy1981 Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 I get the same error but I'm using two 160gb WD SATA drives in a Raid 0 configuration. There is no way it's an issue with my hard drive speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 Screenshot of disk cache settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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