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[shadek]

What exactly does "Optimized disk-io" mean? Means the client will handle the writes to the HDD better? Someone with great knowledge, please enlighten me. :-)

"Feature: Option to always prioritize the rarest pieces."

Where do I enable that? Advanced options?

[Firon]

Yes, to reduce writes and hopefully overload less.

bt.always_prio_rare

[1c3d0g]

Firon: don't you and Ludde feel that rarest pieces should always be defaulted to on? :|

[Vectorferret]

Prioritizing the rarest piece probably slows down the overall download rate, it's probably like super-seeding, not for healthy torrents. Or, they want to test it more before making it default on. Could be either. But I'd think things might be slower that way, as you'd be trying to get a rare piece when fast uploads to common pieces are less preferred to get them.

[1c3d0g]

You've brought up an interesting point. I haven't thought of that at all! They know better anyway, so I'll leave it at that.

[rseiler]

You've brought up an interesting point. I haven't thought of that at all! They know better anyway, so I'll leave it at that.

Don't be so sure:

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=55709#p55709

And on 'Optimized disk-io,' is there any more detail on it specifically? Along with the similar-sounding 'coalesce_writes' now defaulting to true, is anyone noticing a difference?

[splintax]

No, ludde just optimized the IO code. You might want to try asking him in IRC if you really want to know that badly.

coalesce_writes should always improve diskio efficiency, except in older versions it wasn't 100% "safe" to use on all PCs, or so I've heard. Not exactly sure why this was or what's been changed though.

[Firon]

It's safe now.