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HDD overload problem for everyone, i know why!


DaveBG

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When seeding/leeching at more than 800k after some time you may see the your HDD begins to flash more and more, your aplications begin to open more slowly and already opened ones show up in a slide show from top to bottom...

Thi is because if you have less than 1024 RAM and less than 400-500 is free your SystemCashe (FileCashe) grows forever and unloads everything to the pagefile:

"The more the file cache grows, the less memory is available for running applications. The result is a significant decrease in performance as requests for memory lead to the so-called "swapping" of memory. This occurs when unused memory segments are paged out to the hard disk's paging file. Because hard disk access is slow relative to Memory, loss of performance is inevitable. This hapens in all File Cache Management for Windows NT, 2000, 2003 and Windows XP, and even Windows Vista."

I saw that is some other BitTorrent client cashing is not causing this because it uses another, its own method, not Windows!

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Hmm this is exactly what makes me unable to use Utorrent..

So what is the solution to this? Or isn't there any?

Would be very happy if this could be solved and i can finally use this fine application again.

btw. i have already tried the latest stable and beta.

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Any firewall software that tries to do packet inspection may either be falling behind at higher download speeds...or at least holding the connection open longer than it needs to causing a memory leak which could indirectly trigger the overload condition.

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First when the firewall was not set correctly for DHT (I got red light) everything worked fine, then I set it (green light) and soon (after several minutes) I experienced that the HDD load is 100%. I got a lot of error messages like: can not write the resume.dat file... or something like that. I think the DHT cause that. Anyway with another BT cliens the machine is working well.

My system: P3-733, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD, 2Mb ADSL, WinXP SP2, NOD32.

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