cokeacolafan Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 Hi I an new to all of this but i am running.3.1.1. every time i finnish a download or 2 i get a disk overload 100 percent and then it stops downloading. can anyone help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 Do you have the move completed downloads option enabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cokeacolafan Posted January 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 Yes i have it set to go to a different hard drive and both hard drive have at least 1t free space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 The free space is meaningless.Disk overload has to do with the drive's speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cokeacolafan Posted January 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 so if I have to many programs writing to the same hard drive that would slow down the drive. I would do betterr to leace it on the same drive just a different folder. my hard drives are sata2 3gb/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 26, 2012 Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 I would do betterr to leace it on the same drive just a different folder.Yup. Since moving to different folders on the same drive is a FAR faster and less disk intensive process than moving from one hard drive to another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cokeacolafan Posted January 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 sounds good the other thing is that every time i reboot utorrent has to recheck every file before downloading. Any idea why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 26, 2012 Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 Because something in your shutdown process isn't letting uTorrent shut down properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drifter365 Posted January 26, 2012 Report Share Posted January 26, 2012 I am having the exact same issues. utorrent is just using my C: drive which is SATA 3g on a quad-core machine running win7pro 64.I have CentOS 5.7, 6.1, and 6.2 images of 32 bit, 64 bit, and LiveCD queued up for a total of 9 downloads totalling 36.5GB.The first night I told it unlimited up/down so it got up to 1.1Mbit download at which time I noticed it said "Disk 100% overloaded" but I left it going because I have put utorrent under heavier loads than this before. Then within a short time it caused my computer to reboot itself and utorrent wasn't set to start on boot so I got less than 1% downloaded.I started utorrent back up yesterday and it had to check every file. Then it said there was a new Utorrent available and I told it to go ahead and upgrade.Utorrent ran fine all day after that at a limited 350k u/d and then I set the scheduler to limit it between 6AM and 6 PM with it running unlimited outside of that timeframe. During the day it managed to get 6.2 x86_64 downloaded after I changed it to high priority.Today Utorrent appeared to still be running but it was stuck n "Not Responding". I could view the screen and it showed very little downloaded while at the same time showing 1.01 Mbit download speed on the top program bar and showing scheduler limited to 350K at the bottom.I was able to "End Process" on it but it took about 5 minutes to die. I restarted Utorrent and it then checked all the files again. I got maybe 15 to 20% of my files downloaded.I had played around with the "Global maximum number of connections", "Maximum number of peers connected per torrent", and the "Number of upload slots per torrent" the first day and had them set to 1000/50/25 but I decided to scale them back for day 2 to 250/40/5. What settings are optimal ?2.66 Quad CPU, 8GB, 500GB Sata 3G, Win7 Pro 64 Bit, using a 10/10 fibre connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cokeacolafan Posted January 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 i just want to thank you for your help things for me are working ok after i made the changes you told me thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
path0s Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Where the hell did my previous post go? I'm having the same exact issue on all versions of 3.1 so far. Happens at random. I'm on a sata6gb 7200 drive that the only thing it's doing is seeding/leeching about 4-5 torrents. Once it smacks my hd, I have to hit close and wait about 5 minutes for it to do whatever it is it's doing before I can start it back up again.. Whatever it is doing has to be manipulating a number of gigs, since I can unrar a 4.5G rar set in what, about a minute? And that's with the source and destination being on that same drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 You're not having the same issue.That's where the post went. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b8birmingham Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 !!!!!NEW FIX!!!!!!Ok after having done a fresh Windows 7 (Enterprise 32 bit) Install i have found the following to be the best long term fix. This is tested on the latest utorrent build and has been stable for two days downloading a 60 gb torrent.Some of the other methods work only short term (for me).Go to Options>Preferences click the little plus next to Advanced and select Disk Cache. Tick the first box that says Override automatic cache and specify the size manually (MB); In the box change the figure to 1750 and click apply then ok. Exit utorrent restart your pc and try again hope this works for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 Pre-emptive warning. Setting a disk cache that high MASSIVELY increases your chances of causing a ram-cap crash (2GB per-process ram limits in windows for 32-bit applicaitons) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b8birmingham Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 ? What Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 32-bit applications on windows have a per-process RAM limit of 2GB.Setting a 1.75GB disk cache limit puts uTorrent's normal operation DANGEROUSLY close to that limit.Whenever an application exceeds the per-process ram limit, it crashes, hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b8birmingham Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 The test setup has 1 gb ram 32 bit windows 7 and has been ok so far will try stress it and report back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 There's another failure. Setting the disk cache to be larger than your system ram will just thrash your hard drive needlessly because of swapping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b8birmingham Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 I did not say the fix was without faults though i have to say all good so far.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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