skimmy_jimmy Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 hey guys, i have been reading ALL OVER THE INTERNET on how to fix this issue, and NOTHING WORKS! it is getting extremely frustrated. here are my specs basicallyComputer:amd athlon 64 processor 3200+896mb ramhdd - 2TB Western Digital Mirror Edition set to Raid 0 USB 2.011MB/S Internet ConnectionSettings on utorrent:Have all downloads going to L:\ which is my Ext HDDI set the speed guide at xxx/768kupload rate 72kb/smax download rate 1000kb/sglobal maximum 400max connected per torrent 100upload slots per torrent 5protocol encryption enabledmax number active torrents 3max number downloads 2Advanced Disk Cache - Override 450mb reduce memory usage enable caching disk writes write out untouched enable caching of disk reads turn off read caching remove old blocks disable windows caching read and writebasically what is happening is i get 2 downloads going and if the speed all together reaches 1200kb/s for too long, it generally hits the disk overload. i have to put my disk caching at 450 otherwise it will do it much much more quickly. then of course it takes up all of my computer memory, making other things run slow. i just defragged my hdd and it said there were no problems, and there is 1TB left so i know i have enough space. can someone please help me, i have been dealing with this for WEEKS and i am about to say screw it and drop utorrent!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 What kind of drive is that external drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimmy_jimmy Posted January 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 2TB Western Digital Mirror Edition set at Raid 0 using usb 2.0... would i have this problem with one that uses firewire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 It's possible, seek times for USB are far far higher.Try lowering the cache size to 64MB. Disable write out untouched blocks every 2 minutes, enable write out finished pieces immediately. Don't disable the Windows caching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimmy_jimmy Posted January 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 thanks for the help, but unfortunately that didnt do anything. looks like i may have to invest in a hard drive with firewire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammonjerro Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Sorry to jump on someone else's thread, but I've been searching the net for weeks on this and not found ONE successful solution to this.My uTorrent downloads go to my C: Drive which is internal SATA.I have played around with the Disk Cache settings according to various recommendations on this forum, but with no joy.Disk overload is only ever 100%, but only part of the time. Sometimes uTorrent runs fine. At other times I check it and Disk Overload is 100%, downloads are slow, and will not complete. They show as 99.9% and won't go any further. Upon restarting the app, uTorrent runs the "Check" procedure, and the true download progress is revealed as being lower, generally nowhere near 99.9%.If anyone has the solution, please HELP! I would be eternally grateful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 skimmy_jimmy said, "11MB/S Internet Connection"I was unaware that CenturyTel offered a 11 megabyte/second connection.Is that one of their new fiber optic lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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