pawq Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 by the way: my system for downloading is quite old now (internal HDD Samsung 80GB/5400rpm UDMA5 enabled, Duron1000/512MB Ram, ADSL 1Mb) but with Azureus and Shareaza is OK with disk usage, and other tests indicates that disk speed operations are quite qood on this system. uTorrent was better because had lower system resources usage. But now is even worse than Azureus I hope that uT could be still better without this problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 You could also set diskio.flush_files to *false, but this will increase µTorrent's memory usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawq Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 Hi! After many experiments with different versions/settings I don't exactly know in what moment (what I've changed) but all seems working OK now. No exceptional disk usage, uT is taking not more than 8-9MB of memory, internet is not blocked for other applications, I'm happy again:) But... (there is always some "but";)Now I have 1.3 version again (build 364) with settings:*Dload capped at 110kB, Upload at 22kB (I have 1Mb/256kb ADSL)*Max connections: 250 (I have XP/SP2 with removed max connections cap;)*peers/slots per torrent: 100/4*max active torrents/downloads: 20/12*DHT/scraping/pre-allocating: all enabledand advanced:*net.low_cpu: true*dht.rate: 4096*diskio.flush_files: true*diskio.write_queue_size: 2048I will also try higher versions with this settings but I think that we must wait for another STABLE final 1.4 version to be fully happy (for some time;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 Have you run a connection monitoring program to see what else is connecting (or trying to!) to the internet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawq Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 Yes. I've trying successfully with: Firefox, Shareaza, Getright, Tlen (communicator & e-mail client) and uT. Now build 391 is running with the same settings except dht.rate: -1 (changed by uTorrent default settings or something - not by me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawq Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 but with Shareaza enabled I have sometimes little troubles with connect via Firefox -> when needed I close Shareaza and can surf... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Maybe there is a complete other reasone for this Problem than the DL speed. I've used all clients from 1.2 till now. I nerver have this Problem until yesterday.I think the cause is the filesize. I dowload often large files with 4 GB and everything went ok. (The UT PC is a P3 with 400 GHz, so very slow.) I find no context about this massage and the DL speed.But yesterday I tried to DL an 8 GB file and the Disk overload message appears. At the moment I use v1.4 but tried it also with v1.3. Stopping the torrent and starting another and everything is fine again.So maybe there is the Problem to find.Regards Cobra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emaginn Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 mine say that all the time....and my speeds are well in excess of 650kb........it only say that when im doin to much on my cpu....i have a laptop runnin xp and i have 735 mb of ram.......i noticed that when my diskeeper service runs or if im playin a game or even surfin tha web it sometimes says diskoverload then my dl speeds go down for a sec then its back to norm it dosent mess wit ur download sept tha speeds......and try usin utorrent 132 beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snez Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Hey guys do you know the maximum writing speed for external IDE disks? Mine is overloading continually whenever speed exceeds 750k/s so I'm forced to use both a download limiter of 800 and upload limiter of 500 in order to get a stable 700k/s download speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 snez: you may want to manually set a lower write cache for an external drive, maybe 2000 or so? Play with the value and see what works, perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark8037 Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 utorrent is not just writing to the disk. Its reading as well to seed! That might be causing your disk to overload. The latest beta has a read cache that may help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snez Posted January 22, 2006 Report Share Posted January 22, 2006 I changed the write cache from -1 to 32mb and it seems fine at 900k/900k for d/u, still donno if its ok for over 1mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plaatje Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 A week ago I changed from Azureus to uTorrent. Never had signs of disk overload, now I have. I did not change the way I download or upload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 plaatje: manually adjust diskio.write_queue_size to like 4* your download or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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