Finally, as rafi suggests, minimize uT's interface to also cause less consumption. Even if uT takes up too much processing time, it will at least be limited to one core. Simply lower priority to below 'Normal' and set affinity to only one of your available cores. I for one was happy to see the Disk overloaded message as that meant I was downloading faster than disk writes could keep up! But alas, the fun ended when uT started thrashing and I had to kill the program >_<Īlthough unrelated for those suffering from uT taking up too much CPU, Windows allows you to set processor affinity and priority per process. Simply set an upper limit to how much can be used as cache (I set mine to 1/4th of my total RAM) and DISABLE wait for 2 minutes to write to disk and ENABLE write out finished pieces immediately. I am waiting for the two versions - 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 - to merge before I upgrade again.Xthol and Firon's suggestions are correct.ĭownloading too fast will overwhelm your cache and to allow for delayed writes to disk your RAM will serve as a buffer. I using windows 7 64bit Ultimate with uTorrent 3.1.1 b26674. I am not recommending you do the above, but I am not going to make any cnanges to the uTorrent preferences until I see no more issues about the Disk Overload/cache problems. And I now do not have the Disk Overload problem. And I usually keep about 40 download and 40 upload torrents active.

My upload speeds are still better than my download speeds. I increased/override automatic cache size and set it to 512MB, because I always filled up the 32MB cache. I do not disable windows caching for disk reads.Ĥ. This is because I did not want to experience the read and write cache issues noted on this board to occur. I disabled uTorrent doing 'caching of disk reads'. (In an older version of uTorrent when a move occured with a large file - hitting disk overload always occured.)Ģ. This eleminates the need for uTorrent to perform any moves. I place the downloaded content at its final destination. And there have been numerious posts on the subject - search the forums.ġ. I used to get a lot of disk overloads on previous versions of uTorrent.

I do not know if this will help or not - but it works for me.

Utorrent 2.2.1 disk overloaded