100% disk overload

[Dunkledoo]

Hey, when i try to download hd material, even if its only 10 gig big like 10 episodes, 1gig each. I get 100% disk overload and the speed goes to 1kb sec download and upload

But if i download another file thats 10gig but it has like 500 files (rared format) so each of them are like 14mb big, i dont get it.

Ive tried downloading to my main drive, and my external drive. So both of them cant be broken?

[thelittlefire]

Well, your disks don't care about the size of files. You are likely to get OVERLOADED when 1) downloading / uploading fast and 2) when bottlenecked after completion due to move operations.

For 1) what speeds are you experiencing in uT, and for 2) Do you move your data when completed?

[Dunkledoo]

1 a. I download from 1-10mb/s

1 b. Upload 20kb/s - 10mb/s it's different all the time.

2. Nope, i mostly just let it stay where it is. Only on my external drive i move it sometimes.

[thelittlefire]

Well with those speeds it sounds like you need to enlarge the Disk Cache (Ctrl-P > Advanced > Disk Cache). You may also want to turn off "write out finished pieces automatically" and turn on "bypass windows cache" for both READ and WRITE. Turning off "reduce memory" may also decrease time spent re-buffering data.

For explanation of the options the manual accessible from F1 should help clarify.

[Dunkledoo]

kk, i had 1100 mb first, with disk cache but still got it when i tried big files. And i raised it to 1700 mb. Instead utorrent froze up and i had to turn it off with ctrl alt delete

I have 2 gig ram btw.

[thelittlefire]

Oh, hmm... if it's already that high >< You likely can't raise it ~ 1500 because of the inherent 2 GiB limitation on processes. I don't know the actual number... but if you use Process Explorer and see utorrent.exe RAM usage > 2099252 KB, that's bad.

As uTorrent reads/writes data information should be added/removed from the cache. OS? hard drives? What does your Disk Cache pane look like right now?

[Dunkledoo]

I formatted my computer so everything is 100% normal from installation

EDIT: Hmm, i changed to your settings, and it seems to work for now. I'll write another comment if it stops working.

Thank you for the help.

Second EDIT:

Hmm, the problem came back.

I'm downloading 2 torrents and seeding 2 torrents to my main drive, so i decided to download another torrent which was 1gig big to my external and the disk overload came back, but it goes from 80-100% goes away comes back every 2-5 seconds :/