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jlaw84

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I searched the forums and did not find any answers to what I was looking for. I was recently downloading something at about 100-200kB/s and saw that I was getting "Disk Overload" that was from anywhere from 1-12%.

This was the first time I have seen this, and I have downloaded things at much faster rates before without this error. I was not doing anything else that was could be overloading my hard drive to my knowledge.

Anyone have any ideas what could have been causing this and how I could fix it?

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the thing thats scaring me is, it started doing this a few days ago. ive NEVER had this problem before, and ive always downloaded several DVD-R's at a time. think my HD could be crapping out? the even more frightening thing is that other clients lag when i download (bittornado, azureus) and none of them have done this before a few days ago..

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Ben: that is weird...I hope your hard disk isn't crapping out on us. :/ Have you tried changing the diskio.write_queue_size value? Sometimes the autopilot (-1) doesn't work very well for some people. Additionally, you could also use the diskio.read_cache_size feature in the latest Beta to further ease the load on your drive. :)

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alright it seems to be stable at the moment. i set diskio.write_queue_size to 6000 (anything lower and it instantly jumps to "Disk Overload 100%" and freezes my computer.) but there is now a decent sized lag for a few seconds, which is understandable. but the fact that all this started a few days ago freaks me out.. ive even tried to system restore to 2 weeks ago, and the problem still continues. ::sigh:: anyone selling a notebook drive for cheap? :P

what exactly does this diskio.read_cache_size option do? ive enabled it to see if it got rid of the slight lag every 30 seconds or so, and it didnt help THAT issue..

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It's supposed to create a buffer (in your RAM) for your hard disk when it can't keep up with µTorrent's request(s). Some people have noticed a big difference ("my hard disk is noisy"), for others - like me for instance - it doesn't do anything. Not sure what's up with that. :/

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ben: you can find that out by getting SpinRite

Does uninstalling NOD32 fix it by the way?

i havent tried uninstalling nod32, since ive used it for over a year and have never seen this problem before.. my desktop computer also has nod32 and utorrent and everything is working fine there (its 733 mhz/320 mB of ram compaired to this laptops 2 ghz 512 mB of ram.)

i will try out this spinrite program you speak of. for the mean time, setting the diskio queue option to 16 megs has done the trick :)

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user7456: Options -> Preferences -> Advanced Options

change diskio.write_queue_size to 8 times your download speed (and no lower than 1000) in kilobytes.

Okay, I ran the DSL Report and these were the numbers:

2074 down kbps

408 up kbps

then

down 259.3 KB/sec

up 51 KB/sec

So, I multiple the top # by 8 X 2074?

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I get Disk Overloads alot since build 421. It helps if i limit my download speed to 1000kb/s. It's very random though, sometimes i get speeds well over 5mb/s and no error msg and sometimes utorrent complains about 200kb/s. Well, just thought i'd let you know.

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