samir12 Posted April 30, 2014 Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 Hi, I am using uTorrent 3.4.1 build 30888 on Windows 8.1 I had disk overload problems so I used Rafi's settings.dat file which helped but the problem still remains. The download starts fine, gets constant max speed (7.5 MB/s) , and then after a minute or two, the disk cache starts to slowly increase until the limit is reached (set at 128MB) at which the disk overloads (doesn't overload to 100% but speed is throttled nonetheless). I increase the disk cache limit to 256MB but the cache just keeps on increasing until it hits that limit and overloads. I changed the diskio.sparse_files to true but the same problem occurs. Its weird because it seems at first it fine, the cache is steady, but something happens after a minute or two and then it just gives in. Any suggestions on what I could do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 2, 2014 Report Share Posted May 2, 2014 Sounds familiar... As you can see in the screen below, it works fine here (latest build), intentionally decreased to 32M cache. I am not saying that this is a proof or non-bug, but you'd have to keep in mind that: a. No one will deal with "old" builds... You'd have to go for the newest beta/RCb. Most likely (but <100%... ) there is some slowdown in your HD. Try to check its performance with other disk IO utility http://www.imagebam.com/image/55be33324146252 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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samir12 Posted May 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2014 I upgraded to the latest build 30971 and the same thing happens. http://www.imagebam.com/image/cfeedd324151612 The image in the link shows the disk speeds and at what point the problem starts to occur, from that point the file writing speed seems to decrease despite being initially stable for just over a minute. So maybe it is a hard drive problem? This only occurs on big multi file torrents, single files are fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samir12 Posted May 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2014 Ok, I set diskio.sparse_files to true, the only difference is that its stable for just a minute longer but the problem still occurs. http://www.imagebam.com/image/58518d324154012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted May 2, 2014 Report Share Posted May 2, 2014 and diskio.no_zero is set to what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 2, 2014 Report Share Posted May 2, 2014 Turn on pre-allocate files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samir12 Posted May 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2014 and diskio.no_zero is set to what?It is set to true Turn on pre-allocate files.It is turned on. Here is my hard drive disk performance http://www.imagebam.com/image/e72272324210163 I'm not sure what to make of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samir12 Posted May 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 Ok, it seems to be fine now, I've been testing on the same torrent and never thought to try another one or just delete the torrent and files and test again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 I bet you've never tried my settings file... BTW, I can clearly see in all your screenshots the bug of the to-cache/to-file write counters showing 100% difference... Who knows, maybe the root cause for that has something to do with the issue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samir12 Posted May 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 I bet you've never tried my settings file... BTW, I can clearly see in all your screenshots the bug of the to-cache/to-file write counters showing 100% difference... Who knows, maybe the root cause for that has something to do with the issue...I just copied your settings file just to make sure and tested again, problem occurs: http://www.imagebam.com/image/dcca35324452753 PS. Screenshot was took a few seconds after I clicked stopped otherwise you would have seen disk overload Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esdeexx Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 Are the newer versions still plagued with this issue? I reverted back to 3.2.3 version a while ago and didn't have this problem ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 Not here，using my settings below.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligeorge Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 My disk overloads too but only with big torrents(μTorrent 3.4.1 31139 stable and 31224 beta). I don't know the lowest size but in my case a 40gb torrent overloads the disc after 2 minutes. A new beta has arrived 3.4.1 31274 . It is possible they fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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