koeteren Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Disable uTorrent caching entirely! It's broken if you have a v.fast setup.I was experiencing 10kb/sec dl's and 100% disk loads. After uTorrent disabling internal caching I went to 2450kb/sec almost instantly (2.2MB/sec). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suxbuu Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Where do I disable it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 If you're running uTorrent v1.8, then disable WINDOWS caching in uTorrent's advanced disk caching settings...and use uTorrent's caching instead.Do not set uTorrent's cache size larger than 1023 MB though...there seems to be bugs with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suxbuu Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Uhmm, where is the uTorrent's advanced disk caching settings =s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 It's in uTorrent v1.8 under Preferences, Advanced, Disk Cache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suxbuu Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 So I disabled windows caching of disk writes & disk reads. What about the other settings? Disable? And where can I enable utorrent's caching?Edit: Offtopic.uhmm, why does my download speed keep falling and rising? Like first it's 80 rising to 250 then it falls down to 80 or something. And it keeps doing that, how come =S? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 uTorrent's cache settings are generally best left at their default (starting) values. A larger automatic cache size MIGHT help...if you're regularly downloading/uploading over 500 KiloBYTES/second.Writing out finished pieces immediately shouldn't hurt much unless your hard drive/s are VERY slow.There's really no need to turn off read caching or remove old blocks...or reduce memory usage when cache is not needed.The default cache only uses 32 MB max RAM anyway.uTorrent may be overloading your connection's upload speed max.The torrent/s you have running may have some very laggy/slow peers and seeds that are only sending stuff to you in bursts.Your ISP may hate you....and marginal networking hardware and software (on your end or the peers/seeds sending to you) could be causing this.So...what's the speed of your connection both down and up?AND...what settings are you using in uTorrent, as shown by Speed Guide (CTRL+G)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suxbuu Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 My connection speed =S? In Utorrent? MY settings are:Connection type:xx/512kPort: 10009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 So...what's the speed of your connection both down and up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suxbuu Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 In utorrent? My download speed? 80-250 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 No, your connection's actual download and upload speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suxbuu Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Download speed around: 2000 kb/s, upload speed: 526 kb/s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 The disk cache tweaks won't help you at all. All you can do is forward your ports and choose xx/512k. Beyond that, the quality of the swarm will determine your speeds.And 2mbyte/s is not fast at all. Hell, default disk cache works for me at 11mbyte/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 "And 2mbyte/s is not fast at all."Firon, don't you mean 2 megabits/second? So there's really no reason to make uTorrent's cache larger than 32 MB ram (the default)....unless you're seeding a single torrent which is less than 500 MB in size and you've got ram to burn...then you could set uTorrent's cache size 1 MB larger than the torrent size and eventually the whole torrent would be seeding from ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gomp Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 where do I see my disk loads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 27, 2008 Report Share Posted July 27, 2008 uTorrent graphs Disk accesses it makes for torrent file parts.Speed Tab, Disk Statistics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 27, 2008 Report Share Posted July 27, 2008 Firon, don't you mean 2 megabits/second? No, the op said 2mbyte. Not bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gomp Posted July 27, 2008 Report Share Posted July 27, 2008 I see no % figure but I guess he meant his cache got full, mine seems to be around the 25% mark for write cache, read cache is idle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 27, 2008 Report Share Posted July 27, 2008 The graphs themselves show approximate read/write rates for your hard drives while running uTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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