intrmtrc Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Hey. For a few weeks now I have been running uTorrent (3.1) on WinXP without any complications, but today I suddenly noticed the disk getting overloaded up to 100%. With that, the dl speed is not as fast as its potential as well, varying from 200 kB/s to 1.5. I made corrections in the Disk Cache settings, ticked everything but the 'Increase automatic cache size when cache trashing' option. Overriding the automatic cache size seems to help with the disk overloading and also the speed goes up to 4.5 MB/s, which is great, but that brings up even a bigger problem. The mem usage starts leaking like a madman up to the point where I just have to cancel the overriding option, if I even get to it before uTorrent just crashes/doesn't open up from the tray... And back to the slow speed and overloading. Is there any particular reason for this to be accuring so suddenly and is there a solution? Any help would be very much appreciated.Rando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intrmtrc Posted January 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 As I enabled the 'Apply rate limit to transport ahead' option under the Global Rate Limit Options, the speed was pretty okay for a while... Not the best, but okay. Also there was no huge memory leakage anymore. However, the disk overload has now been fixed at 100% for quite a while and for now the download speed has diminshed to 5-100 kb/s. Moreover, as it suddenly dropped, the memory usage kept growing for a while but then diminshed as well... Peculiar stuff. Something else is influencing uTorrent? Windows just gone a bit nuts? Should i perhaps downgrade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurppa_ Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 I am seeing the same issue with the new uTorrent 3.1 release. No idea if 3.0 had this problem. Torrent speeds are around 2MB/s, when downloading off multiple (~10) peers, even though my connection could do over 10MB/s.My relevant specs are Windows 7 64bit, Intel i7 i2600k and the physical media I'm downloading to are 4 hard drives in Raid 0 configuration. I've scanned the drive for errors and SMART shows no problems.If I increase the write cache, the speeds jump to 8-10MB/s until the cache is full. After this, the disk overload indicator starts showing up in the status area of uTorrent and the speeds drop back to around 2MB/s. I noticed uTorrent eats 100% of cpu time on one of the cores.I've been playing around the cache settings, nothing seems to help. Just for kicks, I tried increasing the write cache to 1800MB which is the maximum and disabled the "write out finished pieces immediately" tick. I then went to the Pieces view of the torrent in question. Speeds were good until the cache filled, but shortly after this, uTorrent stopped responding and had to be killed. The forum rules specify that we should try out the newest betas before reporting bugs, but I decided to let you know it's not just you that's having this problem. I'll try out the newest beta if there is any. Hopefully that'll sort out the problem. If not, just have to downgrade or wait for a fix I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peso1 Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 I have the same issue. I have update to the new 3.1 [build 26650] (32-bit) let see if that is better.Im using Vista 64-bit Ult sp2 International English. With 8 GB RAM and Pentium D 2.8GHz and a ASUS P5WD2. 4 x 2 TB disk at two mirros RAID1 at 2TB in the builtin RAID controller less than a year old drives.Checked disk for error's both hard and soft, no error's found. Have also defrag the disk no change.When the disk load in utorrent have showed 100% for a cople of minutes then have I chaeced the disk status in Windows perf. No activity to disk and I I look at the disk activity led no activity eather ther. If I have klicked on the utorrent client it just show a wait symbol and mer an less hang (cant shot down the utorrent with less than using the X in top right corner).I have not find the release not for this new build so I don't know if ther is any thing fixed in that for this issue.The first view of the 26650 build is that it worked good and with fast up and down load for the first 30 minutes. Then It got slower again. Normal upload speed is for me about 2,5 Mbit/s but then it lows to now about 15kbit/s.If I than shutdown the utorrent properly with File > Exit then I can see in the Task manager still the utorrent (32) process running after about 30 min. I need to kill the process to mak a restart of the utorrent. Then all the queued downloading files need to rechecked to be consistent and I get back my up and downloading speed around 2,5 Mbit/s.So the problem seams in the first view to persist also in this 26650 build.I give up with the 3.1.26650 and the other 3.1 verions at the moment. It started to hang even more ofen with this latest version. I installend now the current 64-bit 3.0 build 25570 from 2011-08-23 and have run it for about 1,5 houers with the same setings as befor. I have not seen any decrise of performence even if the disk have somtime shown 100% in diskload (in thrue diskload if I compair it with perfmon). So this problem seams to be related to something that have been change in the code in the last halfyear because I have not ether have this problem befor I installed som of the last of the 3.0 or if it was first of my installed 3.1 builds.So in this you have something to hunt down the problem in what have happen the last halfeyear in the code.Yes I know that I have in this time also change to the 64-bit version, but I know that I did not have this problem in the previus 3.0 32-bit. So it is a problem that have been introduced some time in the last six month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikk Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I changed my advanced settings to these:And kept cache settings almost default except 64 mb cache:This works for me, downloading up to 200 mbits without overload now on a WD Green! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peso1 Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 @spikk Witch version and build you use?And it would have been nice if you have english screen's. Note that the tubble is atleest in the last builds of utorrent 3.1 not in the 3.0 for about half a year ago as I describe in my note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikk Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 @spikk Witch version and build you use?And it would have been nice if you have english screen's. Note that the tubble is atleest in the last builds of utorrent 3.1 not in the 3.0 for about half a year ago as I describe in my note.English about screen! But I can remember having problems with 3.0 aswell, maybe less problems but still some overload.Did this fix your problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurppa_ Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 I changed my advanced settings to these:And kept cache settings almost default except 64 mb cache:This works for me, downloading up to 200 mbits without overload now on a WD Green! Unfortunately, while these tips fixed my disk overload problems (great work finding those settings out by the way), they caused a huge memory leak somewhere. It doesn't seem to matter if I have cache enabled or not, the leak is still happening on both the older build, and build 26650.I took a screenshot from task manager and resource monitor. It's behind this link since it's so large: http://i.imgur.com/t1SlY.pngIn the picture, uTorrent has been running about 10 minutes, which is just about enough to fill my RAM completely. You can see from the task manager's physical memory usage history graph, that the leak is steady and quite large. The size of the leak is probably related to the speed uTorrent is downloading at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a12358 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I don't know if this can be useful for the debug, but very similar things happen when running uTorrent 3.1 under Wine 1.3.28. The process increases its resident size until it trashes everything and gets killed by the OS. The increase rate is in some way related to the download speed, i.e. more speed=faster increase, no speed=no increase. As expected, fiddling with the disk cache options doesn't make any effect (no Windows in there :-)).I had to run uTorrent through a script that detects the RSS memory occupation and closes/reopens it when it reaches 500 MB... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 You might want to try my recommended cache settings in my sig-tips/guide , see if it still leaks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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