cretemaniam12345 Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 This is the 1st time I have seen this happen ,or noticed it after 3 years of using this program (?) but , at the bottom of the UT download manager I am seeing "disk overloaded" , and the %'s shown fluctuate between 85% and 100% and my downloads are moving unusually slow , even tho' I have almost 20 mbps internet speed .What is disk overload ? Any info appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogdanh Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 I have the same problem since I updated to 3.1. I have ~25mbps speed and I have to restart uTorrent a few times not to get "disk overloaded". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neonerd Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 buy a new hd and backup, its probly gonna burn out soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peso1 Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Not nessesary a HW problem see in this link for some fail reports of this in the 3.1.http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=111482 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...
cretemaniam12345 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Sorry took me so long to get back , but , I realized that this overloaded disc warning came when I was running a scan , AVG in fact , and only then . Must've been to much for the system to do at once .Pure speculation of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjard Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Ye, it means uTorrent has noticed that the disk is performing slowly, probably because other processes or operations are hammering it too. Hard disks dont do anything simultaneously well.. Running a virus scan at the same time as a file search, at the same time as copying movies around at the same time that utorrent is trying to write a 200mbit/s download to your disk is pretty much gonna guarantee that everything gets massively slowerRemember that hard disk head movement causes a disproportionate drop in speeds. If you copy one file between disks you might get 50Mb/s..If you copy 2 files simult, you might get 20MB/s each (40mb/s total), if you copy 3 files, you might get 7MB/s each (20mb/s total)... every additional thing you do to make that hard disk thrash whacks your total speed of transferIf you have vista/w7 you can see which processes are hammering the disk in Performance Monitor (in task manager) next time you see Disk Overloaded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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