jlaw84 Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 I searched the forums and did not find any answers to what I was looking for. I was recently downloading something at about 100-200kB/s and saw that I was getting "Disk Overload" that was from anywhere from 1-12%. This was the first time I have seen this, and I have downloaded things at much faster rates before without this error. I was not doing anything else that was could be overloading my hard drive to my knowledge.Anyone have any ideas what could have been causing this and how I could fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 Set diskio.write_queue_size to 2x -4x your maximum download speed and you're done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 im having the same issue, excpet it totally freezes my computer.. ic3: i thought that issue was solved by making utorrent automatically set it for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Seems like it's not perfect yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 the thing thats scaring me is, it started doing this a few days ago. ive NEVER had this problem before, and ive always downloaded several DVD-R's at a time. think my HD could be crapping out? the even more frightening thing is that other clients lag when i download (bittornado, azureus) and none of them have done this before a few days ago.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 ben: does it hardlock the PC or just freeze every 30 seconds for 1-3 seconds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 the computer becomes 99% crippled.. and my HDD light stays locked on. but winamp keeps playing.. so its not a total freeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Ben: that is weird...I hope your hard disk isn't crapping out on us. :/ Have you tried changing the diskio.write_queue_size value? Sometimes the autopilot (-1) doesn't work very well for some people. Additionally, you could also use the diskio.read_cache_size feature in the latest Beta to further ease the load on your drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 alright it seems to be stable at the moment. i set diskio.write_queue_size to 6000 (anything lower and it instantly jumps to "Disk Overload 100%" and freezes my computer.) but there is now a decent sized lag for a few seconds, which is understandable. but the fact that all this started a few days ago freaks me out.. ive even tried to system restore to 2 weeks ago, and the problem still continues. ::sigh:: anyone selling a notebook drive for cheap? what exactly does this diskio.read_cache_size option do? ive enabled it to see if it got rid of the slight lag every 30 seconds or so, and it didnt help THAT issue.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 It's supposed to create a buffer (in your RAM) for your hard disk when it can't keep up with µTorrent's request(s). Some people have noticed a big difference ("my hard disk is noisy"), for others - like me for instance - it doesn't do anything. Not sure what's up with that. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 keep the read cache off unless you're using very large values and have lots of RAM. (>1GB)do you have a firewall or AV by any chance? go ahead and raise diskio.write_queue_size to 16384 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 im using sygate for my firewall, and nod32 for my virus scanner. i think its just my HDD going out, heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 ben: you can find that out by getting SpinRiteDoes uninstalling NOD32 fix it by the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
askgemini Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Hi, i usually dl at 1200-1300kB/s, had this disk overload problem and setting were changed to 2500 and my dl speed has dropped to max 50kB/s, any suggestions.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 askgemini: you in particular need to set it much higher (due to your insane bandwidth), try something like 32768. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
askgemini Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Thanks im on a ntl 10mb cable connection..1.3mb per second is fastest i get.How come i just started having this problem, was never an issue before..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 No idea. But plenty of people had no problems either, and later on the Disk Overloaded message appeared for no reason. I'm uncertain what's causing it... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zappe Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 had this problem to.. had to set the value up to 130000 before i got rid of the overload problems..-1 just gave me 100% overload ...i dl aroung 2mb/s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user7456 Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 Hi, I too am suffering through this problem. Please in laymens terms, how do I fix it? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 user7456: Options -> Preferences -> Advanced Optionschange diskio.write_queue_size to 8 times your download speed (and no lower than 1000) in kilobytes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 ben: you can find that out by getting SpinRiteDoes uninstalling NOD32 fix it by the way?i havent tried uninstalling nod32, since ive used it for over a year and have never seen this problem before.. my desktop computer also has nod32 and utorrent and everything is working fine there (its 733 mhz/320 mB of ram compaired to this laptops 2 ghz 512 mB of ram.)i will try out this spinrite program you speak of. for the mean time, setting the diskio queue option to 16 megs has done the trick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user7456 Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 user7456: Options -> Preferences -> Advanced Optionschange diskio.write_queue_size to 8 times your download speed (and no lower than 1000) in kilobytes.Okay, I ran the DSL Report and these were the numbers:2074 down kbps408 up kbpsthendown 259.3 KB/secup 51 KB/secSo, I multiple the top # by 8 X 2074? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 No, I said in kilobytes (KB). 259 x 8, and round it to the nearest multiple of 512 So in your case, you could try 2048. If that still doesn't work, raise it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahib Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 I get Disk Overloads alot since build 421. It helps if i limit my download speed to 1000kb/s. It's very random though, sometimes i get speeds well over 5mb/s and no error msg and sometimes utorrent complains about 200kb/s. Well, just thought i'd let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 sahib, just set a high write queue value (try 32768 or something), and use the read cache (80MB+) if it still gives you overloads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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