shadek Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Yes, to reduce writes and hopefully overload less.bt.always_prio_rare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Firon: don't you and Ludde feel that rarest pieces should always be defaulted to on? :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vectorferret Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rseiler Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 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#p55709And 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 It's safe now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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