uTorrent - Disk Overloaded

[Nashy]

So yeah, I have 100% disk overloaded. I'm downloading onto a partition on my 1TB drive, which is a second drive, not running Windows.

I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate 64.

I've Googled it, and found all sorts of stuff about the error, but nothing is super dumb to tell me what I need to do to fix it.

Can someone tell me what to do, pretending I'm a 60+ yo, who is new to these crazy interwebs please?

[Subject Delta]

What version of uTorrent are you running, how full is the disk you are downloading to, and what is the size of the file being downloaded?

[ajua]

As Frank said, post more information.

Specially about the version that you are using. The latest is uTorrent 1.8.5.17091.

Also, there some Beta build in their website for version 2 but I haven't tried them.

[Nashy]

uTorrent 1.8.4 Build 16688

Torrent Size: 1.37GB

Seeds: 176

Peers: 35

Usual download speed when it's going wuick is about 1MB/s.

HDD Useage: 479GB free of 686GB

[x9248]

The problem is you're downloading faster (most likely 4MB chunk pieces) than your HDD can write, has nothing to do with space or filesize.

In Preferences > Advanced > Disk Cache

Uncheck "Write out finished pieces immediately"

This will delay it a bit and give your HDD a breather. If it's still doing it checkmark "Override automatic cache size... etc" and add it to RAM (something like 128MB should work).

[Nashy]

I've just upgraded to the newest version too. I'll give the above suggestion a go and will annoy you all some more if it's still not working! Cheers.

[yxz]

6. 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.

Write out untouched blocks every 2 minutes will control whether ?Torrent 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 ?Torrent writes finished pieces immediately. If turned off, it will write them after a maximum of 15 secondsTurn this off if using very large cache values or experiencing disk overload during your downloadb> (NOT if you just added the torrent, that is normal!).

http://www.utorrent.com/faq#faq6

[Dance.]

have you tried deleting the torrent + data and restarting it completely (provided you have free space) ?

[Nashy]

Changed all of the above, and it's doing the same thing.

@Trance.

It's doing it for all torrents that I have checked and tried to download for the past couple of days.

[Nagisan]

Odd, I can say downloading at up to 1 MB/s on my system the only time I have had this problem is if I try downloading to my Flash Drive....gotta limit the speeds to like 300-400 KB/s to avoid it. Given your available space I am assuming you are not downloading to a flash drive, is the HDD you are downloading to internal? If not, what interface is it connected through?

EDIT: Give this a shot: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=382588#p382588

[i_was_here]

Have you tried different BT clients to see if they give any errors?

[Nashy]

Odd, I can say downloading at up to 1 MB/s on my system the only time I have had this problem is if I try downloading to my Flash Drive....gotta limit the speeds to like 300-400 KB/s to avoid it. Given your available space I am assuming you are not downloading to a flash drive, is the HDD you are downloading to internal? If not, what interface is it connected through?

EDIT: Give this a shot: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=382588#p382588

It's an internal 1TB Sata II, WD. It's partitioned into two partitions. The above link didn't help either.

Have you tried different BT clients to see if they give any errors?

No, I guess as a last resort I'll do that.

I'm downloading it to C now and it seems to be working.

I have only had this trouble since upgrading to a legit copy of Win 7 64. Could it be something to do with that?

Actually guys. I might make mention of another issue I'm having too. It might be related, I'm not sure.

I use Winamp, and have all my music stored on this same drive, and quite often, my music will just stop, yet a lot of the time, Winamp will continue to operate, except it won't play. No error, just no noise.

[mtrftw]

have you run chkdsk (if it exsists in win 7)?

[Geranium_Z__NL]

i would say its power related.. but... I think everything is power related and always blame the PSU.. so yeah.. ... coulda try that :p

My lil bro has this.. i know its His PSU.. but hes begging me to replace it.. Im not going to do such a thing.

I had this.. also blamed my PSU.. but i got a new one and everything worked fine after..

Also.. i had this problem too on some older pc (Cause i clocked the Darn thing) That was a Pentium 3, so i think thats unrelated to you.

[Nashy]

Surely is it was power related I would see a problem with gaming no?

[soldier1st]

perhaps your running too many apps, also try process explorer and see what is using the disk.