Disk Overloaded 100% when I start a torrent

[Ali 24789]

So it seems that when I start a torrent, I'll get this message appearing and my download speed will plummet to virtually nothing. After a while, the message disappears and everything returns to normal. I can see this behaviour repeating itself when one torrent finishes and the next one in the queue starts up. Now, admittedly I'm downloading at about 1.8MB/s but it is onto a regular old IDE drive, not an external one as many people complaining about this issue have been using (though mine is a second drive and not the one XP is installed on).

If it's of any help, here's a screenshot of my Disk Cache settings:

I also can't remember this issue ever occurring before 1.7.7

Edit: The torrents are also pretty large in size (>5GB) but it is formatted to NTFS so the file system isn't the problem.

[jewelisheaven]

Hmmm, the FAQ takes a stab at it. My guess is that Windows can't keep up. If it's a single drive :/ As the disk gets filled up it has to seek more. I'm not sure if the issue will go away if you try out 1.8 and disable windows cacheing. Do you preallocate or have sparse files enabled? Have you tried it without "dump finished pieces immediately" and with "automatically increase size when thrashing"? You can see current cache usage in Speed tab change the first dropdown to "Disk Statistics"

[hermanm]

It used to happen in 1.7x for me when I was downloading a 100GB torrent. It wasn't a disk write issue for me, so that's not always why the "disk overloaded" message comes up. I just turn off the cache in uTorrent when I see this happen. My thought is that there are too many caches involved... There's uTorrent cache, Windows cache, and cache on hard drive.

[Ali 24789]

I just thought I'd let everyone know that checking "Increase automatic cache size when thrashing" seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks, jewelisheaven!

[panicrooster]

Well, SEEMS TO is probably a good way to put it and I bet you will end up with the same results but only in less frequency Ali. I'm with hermanm in that there is no need to have, what is already an unstable program (1.7.7), to control my cache or adding to it. I've had the same problems until I unchecked those cache settings. A lot of it does have to do with the pc capabilities and limits, but why have a simple unstable program have a say in how your hd works in the 1st place? To uTorrent I say.. I like your program and it's features but it would be nice if it was actually stable before you label it so! My advice people.. get a copy of 1.6 and keep it.

To jewelisheaven.. strange you appear all over this forum and completely clueless on every one. On the other forum related to this topic you claimed that anyone who had a crash with this program must have "something broken", and you disputed my idea, same as hermanm, to uncheck and turn off utorrents cache settings. Here you are saying we should upgrade to 1.8 and do just that! Why would we want a more unstable beta version (claimed stable) of utorrent? Is your goal to become an admin on this site by responding to every forum with your little utorrent symbol? Lol.. that's funny.

[Firon]

When your ut crashed, did the RAM usage go over 1GB?

And 1.8 is quite stable, despite being labeled beta. It wasn't in alpha testing for 4 months for nothing.