p1r4t3_777 Posted December 30, 2012 Report Posted December 30, 2012 It's a really old issue.Disabling disk cache on the new versions results in a disk overloaded again, but in smaller values (like 10%). Makes sense that deactivating in the past worked fine, as I had a 1.1MB/s download speed and now I got 3.4MB/s.Older versions of utorrent (2.0.4) work fine disabling the cache write, but make the hard drive produce a lot of "read/write" noises. Enabling it back again instantly makes it quiet.I currently have the newest version with a custom cache of 1700mb. The problem is, when I copy files to my hard drive, the cache starts filling slowly, at about 3MB/s, which is my download rate. After a while, it reaches 1700mb and BAM - disc overload.It's not even that bad this way, but what if I had a 10MB/s download rate? The cache would fill a lot faster.However, other clients have this issue too (Delugue, Vuze). My other recent PC (has a 500gb WD caviar green, but come on, it should copy at 3MB/s) gets the disk overloaded message too. I've seen people with SSDs complaining about the same message..So what the heck is going on?
ciaobaby Posted December 30, 2012 Report Posted December 30, 2012 I've seen people with SSDs complaining about the same message..SSDs are slower on write cycles than SATA drives are.256MB Cache, SATA II internal drive and I have NO overload problems at 100+ MB download.
p1r4t3_777 Posted December 30, 2012 Author Report Posted December 30, 2012 I've seen people with SSDs complaining about the same message..SSDs are slower on write cycles than SATA drives are.256MB Cache, SATA II internal drive and I have NO overload problems at 100+ MB download.Can you try downloading a 10gb torrent at 100+mb download speed, AND copy lots of big files to your hard drive? (Just copy some random stuff to your desktop) While doing it, watch utorrent's disk statistics.
ciaobaby Posted December 30, 2012 Report Posted December 30, 2012 Can you try downloading a 10gb torrent at 100+mb download speed, AND copy lots of big files to your hard drive?That is a Windows problem NOT a uTorrent one.
p1r4t3_777 Posted December 30, 2012 Author Report Posted December 30, 2012 Can you try downloading a 10gb torrent at 100+mb download speed, AND copy lots of big files to your hard drive?That is a Windows problem NOT a uTorrent one.Could you tell me why it happens then?
ciaobaby Posted December 30, 2012 Report Posted December 30, 2012 It happens because the data transfer rate is faster the the drive interface, And Windows 'Desktop' operating systems have never been particularly great at handling disc I/O.Just try opening two seperate file copy/move processes between two drives.
Kitsoran Posted December 30, 2012 Report Posted December 30, 2012 It happens because the data transfer rate is faster the the drive interface, And Windows 'Desktop' operating systems have never been particularly great at handling disc I/O.Just try opening two seperate file copy/move processes between two drives.What about BT Inc admitting to some versions having issues with the disk cache?
ciaobaby Posted December 30, 2012 Report Posted December 30, 2012 Same thing, anybody ever reported similar problems on Macs using any DFS or Linux systems using ext2, 3 or 4
p1r4t3_777 Posted December 30, 2012 Author Report Posted December 30, 2012 So we have to run linux/buy a freaking expensive mac to torrent properly? :/
Kitsoran Posted December 31, 2012 Report Posted December 31, 2012 Same thing, anybody ever reported similar problems on Macs using any DFS or Linux systems using ext2, 3 or 4So complete ignorance. Ok.
ciaobaby Posted December 31, 2012 Report Posted December 31, 2012 So; will you be offering any educational material or just keaving it at snide comments, because I have machines running Centos 6.2 and Ubuntu 12 that do NOT have disc overload problems no matter what work they are doing.
Kitsoran Posted January 1, 2013 Report Posted January 1, 2013 Everything you need is on this forum. Use search.
ciaobaby Posted January 1, 2013 Report Posted January 1, 2013 You mean the thread on disc overloading in the Mac section where the poster then realised that it was posted in the WRONG section and it should have been in the Windows section????
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