Disk Overloaded !

[Zelucifer]

The old solution: change diskio.write_queue_size to 8x your download speed in kilobytes. (so if you're getting 10 megs a second, do 80000). Not 100% sure if that's the current fix, but it used to work.

[jrzy]

Increase your disk cache in utorrent

[fatcat69]

Best solution is to increase cache like everyone is saying but to do it to 70% of your total memory on the server, so if you have 1024, just do about 700mb

This will only work a little bit. For large files, eventually, if you dont limit your download speed, it will come eventually. So besides the memory, adjust your download to about 5mb/s for large files (dvdr size and bigger) as your hard drive just cant keep up physically.

Smaller files shouldnt have the problem at all.

[fstokebanget]

@ predateur, look at my thread : https://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bit...seedbox-258586, there's several settings there, and if you wanna use mine, don't forget to change the limit to some value between 768-1024

[jam0980tr]

if you got 1gig of ram use 512 mb fstokebanget link is good use that, i hit 66 mark on my GBIT server

[predateur]

when i have 256 and the disk overloaded i change it to 512, after 10sec it will over loaded too, i change it to 700 another 10sec and it overloaded too
do you think with a SATA disk we have the same problem?

[tyman]

yeah i have the same problem...but I'm fine with it. I am just going to reinstall windows.

[klink05]

this just happened to me for the first time. the problem for me was that i just got a new HDD and was transferring a bunch of my files onto it. because i was transferring about 100gb, that was taking up the disk speed and caused it.

[jam0980tr]

when i have 256 and the disk overloaded i change it to 512, after 10sec it will over loaded too, i change it to 700 another 10sec and it overloaded too
do you think with a SATA disk we have the same problem?

set it to 512mb see what you get ? let me know, becoz that's the settings i use atm and i don't get any Disk Overloaded

[pcallisto]

when i have 256 and the disk overloaded i change it to 512, after 10sec it will over loaded too, i change it to 700 another 10sec and it overloaded too
do you think with a SATA disk we have the same problem?

It depends on how fast you are downloading. Some things to look for:

• separate OS and data onto different disks--If you have a low memory system, swapping of OS will impact download read/writes, while torrent disk activity will impact OS performance
• balance torrents onto different disks -- e.g. if DL'ing multiple torrents, spread out the load. By the same token, if you are doing a high speed upload, that should be balanced onto a different disk from where you are writing DL'ing torrents.
• quality of disk controller -- crap controller will bog down under load, especially IDE controllers (there's a reason why enterprise servers don't use IDE)
• cache size on hard drive (obviously you want a bigger cache)
• spindle speed of hard drive (faster spindle, faster writes, generally)

Another potential fix: put in two disks and stripe the disks for better performance. Even if they are just IDE disks, this should improve write and read performance.

--p