misssmokys Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 I have problems with uTorrent, where periodically throughout the day all torrents will become inactive, until I exit and restart uTorrent. Once restarted, usually a lot of torrents will become active again, both downloads and uploads. I have searched in the forums, best practices, and troubleshooting without finding much help with this issue. As a long-time user, I have had this problem for many years, and just tolerated it, but find it pretty aggravating. My suspicion is that I just try to do too much with uTorrent, and let many hundreds of completed torrents continue seeding, and have too many hundreds of torrents trying to downloading. The only thing that I have found that helps for a while is to just get rid of all the torrents, and then gradually add new ones. Aggravating to do this of course. since I find myself getting the same torrents again that I got and deleted last year. Maybe I just am expecting too much? Maybe uTorrent was never intended by people who want many thousands of books and music files? I find myself spending time on searching my hard drive where I manually moved completed files, to see if I already have the files from a particular torrent, so I don't download it again. Not the way I want to spend my time! Last fall I used GSEEW to collect the list of all previously downloaded ebooks from my HDD folders, then use Kedit to quickly search that list. But it would be so much quicker to just leave all torrents in uTorrent indefinitely, since it can easily detect previously downloaded torrents! Maybe someone has some good ideas that will help with this issue. I would appreciate any ideas. This has been an issue no matter which router, firewall, VPN or no VPN, Windows version I was using over the years. I do have what used to seem like a lot of RAM, 4GB, and uTorrent does often use over 200MB of this. I do have all the Windows 7 updates. Thanks for considering this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Screenshot of preferences - bandwidth, preferences - bittorrent, preferences - transfer cap, preferences - queueing and preferences - scheduler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misssmokys Posted January 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 I am attaching gifs of the five screen captures from the preferences. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 You're trying to start far too many torrents at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 And use PNG next time please. Quality loss is massive on GIF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misssmokys Posted January 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Thank you. I will just try to limit my use of uTorrent to a few files. FYI, I did try to attach larger files, better quality, but the size limit wouldn't let me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Turn down the numbers in your queue settings and let uTorrent manage which ones are active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misssmokys Posted January 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 I did that, and things improved immediately! Again, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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