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Adding large torrent slowsdown downloads
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:03 pm
by Jerico
As the topic says when I add a torrent, let's say around 40 Gigabytes(don't know what the "border" size is when this starts to happen), all of my current torrents slowdown to a few kilobytes a second all the way to halting their transfers completely. Is there away around this? Running W7-64bit/qBittorrent 4.1.2-64bit. The harddrive is standard 6TB Seagate.
EDIT: The harddrive is connect through a control card so could this be the cause of the problem?
Re: Adding large torrent slowsdown downloads
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:41 am
by Switeck
Yes, sadly allocating files for a new torrent tends to bring everything else to a halt.
Are you using full allocation, sparse, or something other for the files?
Re: Adding large torrent slowsdown downloads
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 11:16 pm
by Jerico
[quote="Switeck"]
Yes, sadly allocating files for a new torrent tends to bring everything else to a halt.
Are you using full allocation, sparse, or something other for the files?
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Full(default) I guess since I haven't changed anything conserning allocation, and the drive is formated as NTFS.
Re: Adding large torrent slowsdown downloads
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 11:36 pm
by Switeck
Full allocation is exactly what it says -- fully allocating the entire files before downloading anything.
Sparse would be marginally better if it wasn't insane in how it works -- file fragmentation with that mode is crazy-high, which can cause horribly slow read/write speeds on the HDD.
Defragging a HDD after maybe each 100 GB downloaded can help slightly no matter what method is used.