MechR Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 1.1.5 introduced the "clear cache every minute" option to help with people having memory-usage problems.I enabled this option in 1.1.5.1.1.6 changed the Advanced settings menu to something like Firefox's about:config. The relevant setting seems to be diskio.flush_files, but it's set to false. Is that the correct setting, or did it switch the "clear cache" feature off when I upgraded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miluthui Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 I want to know as well :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludde Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 Yes, that is the same setting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeppal Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 so no harm if we turn it on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludow Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 Hello!Can we have some kind of manual for these advanced (and cryptical)settings? ludow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vurlix Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 We're working on it. Stay tuned.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludow Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 We're working on it. Stay tuned..Thats great. Highly appreciated.ludow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miluthui Posted October 18, 2005 Report Share Posted October 18, 2005 so no harm if we turn it on?I think so cause when I turned it on, everything seemed to be working fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h0rnytoad1 Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 so if its turned off how long until it flushes the cache ? im looking to find out if the disk is more or less acessed with this turned on. perso i dont mind utorrent using more ram, i figure a small memory cache of its own is worth it if its gonna use less my hdd. its there, why not use it ? better to use the ram than put strain on the hdd.thanks for any info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludde Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 It doesn't flush any cache. It just closes all open file handles every 60 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechR Posted October 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 It doesn't flush any cache. It just closes all open file handles every 60 seconds.Sorry, I couldn't remember what it did exactly :oops:So, true enables it, and false disables it? Does that mean my settings got changed somehow in the upgrade? (it's set to false now, but I had the feature enabled in 1.1.5) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozz Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 The setting seem to get lost from 1.1.5 so you have to change it back in 1.1.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h0rnytoad1 Posted October 19, 2005 Report Share Posted October 19, 2005 It doesn't flush any cache. It just closes all open file handles every 60 seconds.thanks, i think. So in plain english ? would it mean it leaves windows to handle the writting to disk whenever it sees fit ?what about cache for reading ahead of blocks to upload ? (again, to minimize hdd accesses.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anime Janai Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 It doesn't seem to have cache for reading files for uploading, just caching for downloads.It's an irony that upload caching is less useful than is download caching. That's because the Pieces that you upload are probably scattered all over the file and not in nice convenient sequence. However, looking at my Azureus upload stats, I've got as much as 8% savings on disk access for uploads when I set a large cache size (above 40 megabytes). So, if the programmers had evaluated the value of upload caching by looking at a parallel example from Azureus, it may have told them this feature is low on the priority list. I'd find it much more useful to have persistent superseeding mode (superseed doesn't turn off if another users reaches 100%). Many users hit-and-run and they turn off my superseeding mode in azureus. If there was a persistent superseed mode option, I would switch to uTorrent for my seeding. I have over 400 torrents in my Azureus seeding section, so staying in superseed mode is important to make use of my upload bandwidth in keeping multiple torrents alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironboyzz Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 re: diskio.flush_filesDoes that setting require a restart of app.TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 I don't think it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfire Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 Most if not all of the advanced options take effect immediately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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