downloading issues/woles
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I had upgraded to 3mbs plan 2 mths ago. I had been having problems with bittorrent.
My old d/l spd was about 100kbs. After this plan upgraded, it sometimes went up to 300kbs. However my BT client software will return an "Disk Overload 100%" error. D/ling will drop to a mere 10-20kbs.
There is more than sufficient disk space available. I had tried restricting max d/l speed in BT client to 250kbs, and later to 150kbs. But the error still occurs. Had anyone encountered this issue before or knows how to recitify it?
I had also read about some forumers here posting about restricting upload speeds to 80% of the plan's max upload spd. I am wondering do we then need to restrict our download spd to a certain percentage too?
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What BT client are you using?
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bittorent 6.0
If it helps,
Max global connections =500
Max number of connected peer per torrent =200
Max num of active torrents =25
Max num of downloads = 25
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Originally posted by Togogal:
bittorent 6.0
If it helps,
Max global connections =500
Max number of connected peer per torrent =200
Max num of active torrents =25
Max num of downloads = 25
From uTorrent's (which I, myself am using and was bought over in 2006 by the company who made your BitTorrent 6.0 client) FAQ:
What does Disk Overloaded in the status bar mean?
This means that the disk was not able to keep up with the read/write speed. To fix this, you can change the options in Disk Cache.
However, if this happens when adding a torrent, it is normal, and due to a design limitation in µTorrent, which will be fixed in the future, not because your disk is actually overloaded. It will disappear after a few minutes.
How do I modify the disk cache options?
(1.6 and later) While the defaults should work fine, even up to 100Mbit, you may want to alter the disk cache options. You will find the options in Advanced -> Disk Cache. To see the current cache use, look at the Speed tab, and choose Disk Statistics from the drop-down list.
- The cache size is a combined size, you cannot specify an individual size for read and write caching.
- Reduce memory usage when cache not needed will release all the memory for the write cache when you are not downloading.
- Write out untouched blocks every 2 minutes will control whether µTorrent flushes the chunks from incomplete pieces to disk if the piece has been inactive for 2 minutes. Turn this off if using very large cache values or experiencing disk overload during your download (NOT if you just added the torrent, that is normal!).
- Write out finished pieces immediately will control whether µTorrent writes finished pieces immediately. If turned off, it will write them after a maximum of 15 seconds. Turn this off if using very large cache values or experiencing disk overload during your download (NOT if you just added the torrent, that is normal!).
- Turn off read caching when the upload speed is low will turn off read caching when the upload speed is <100 KB/s, where the read cache is more likely to do harm than good.
- Remove old blocks from cache will remove unused blocks after a certain amount of time has passed since they were used. Turn this off if using very large cache values.
- Increase automatic cache size when cache thrashing will make µTorrent increase the automatic cache size if you are experiencing disk overloads, because of very high speeds or a slow disk. Do NOT turn this on if you are experiencing disk overload while you just added the torrent, that is normal.
So, are you running something disk-intensive while torrenting? If not, it may be due to the fact that your HDD is slow/dying, or incorrect configuration of the memory cache settings. You may want to try the settings shown in the screenshot below.
