Please Advise

[paulg1981]

Hello All,

I have utorrent 1.8.1, latest beta, running on a win2003std server with 4gig of ram. The connection speed is 100/100mb and it is the primary app I run in the box (seedbox). I have sifted throught the forums to look for the best settings for my enviornment with regard to disk cache and I have become confused with conflicting info.

Currently I have:

Override auto cache size: '1023'

Everything else is checked including disabling windows caching of reads/writes.

My questions are:

1. What is the maximum size of cache that I can allocate to utorrent without trouble? I have heard that greater than 1023 can be an issue but I have also read that 1024-2047 is okay?

2. Are the other disk cache settings optimal? Should I uncheck anything?

Thanks for clearing this up for me, your help is much appreciated!

[Switeck]

Reducing memory usage when cache is not needed...probably won't help.

Removing old blocks form the cache doesn't really help.

Increasing cache size when cache thrashing probably won't help either due to how big the cache is allowed to be (1000+ MB).

[Firon]

Sometimes a cache over 1GB works, sometimes it doesn't. Haven't really gotten a confirmation if it works for sure in 1.8.1. To be safe, you should probably keep it under 1GB.

And unless your system is slowing to a crawl when seeding/downloading, you shouldn't enable the system cache bypass options either.

[paulg1981]

Can you explain why I should disable the system cache bypass option. Not that I doubt you I would just like to understand :-) I currently have 4gigs of ram on the seedbox and I wish there was a way for utorrent to utilize it?

[Firon]

The system cache uses free RAM on your system to cache stuff. Normally, this works fine, but sometimes it goes a little too far and starts paging program memory to disk, slowing down your system...