qBittorrent reading NVME 2GB/s and downloading only at < 10MB/s (+pics)

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qBittorrent reading NVME 2GB/s and downloading only at < 10MB/s (+pics)

Post by NVME2SlowForQBt »

Hey,
to keep things short;
40ish BG torrent / Win 11 / TOSHIBA P300 3TB hdd (CMR) / Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVME / Ryzen 5600 / 350Mbps-ish internet (usually getting 40MB/s @ Steam)
i started downloading a torrent to one of my HDDs and noticed:
A) download speed was very low (5MB/s) and
B) disk usage was 100% (mostly reading).

I thought this was due to "pre-allocate" being on, so i turned it off and deleted the torrent (which took 40minutes to complete btw - after which the 100% disk usage stopped).
I then re-added the torrent but nothing was happening, no folder created, no downloading ...so i deleted torrent again, restarted PC, again added torrent, this time to my NVME, and away it went ... and at full speed too. When this baby hit 2GB/s reads imagine the download speed i got... effing 5MB/s-8MB/s ?!

The NVME's disk usage was 80-100%, all reading. ?!
And not in bursts or something, no pauses. Constant very high disk read usage ?!

Can someone explain pls? I don't remember this happening..ever.. on any torrent client.

Why is simply downloading 1 torrent causing 100% disk usage (and from what i can tell all of it coming from reading, not writing)

Thank you.

PS
i don't know how this forum handles attachments, so for your convenience, a Lightshot upload :
1) https://prnt.sc/nKBuLDCjuk_e
2) https://prnt.sc/tJjnUp3tDCUQ
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Re: qBittorrent reading NVME 2GB/s and downloading only at < 10MB/s (+pics)

Post by Peter »

I don't know.
qBittorrent 4.4.2 + Windows 10, Direct HDD download with 110MB/s+ speeds.
0% SSD usage.
Torrent was > 40 GB in size.

SSD is A-Data, HDD is I think Toshiba (same as yours?), ugh...
Only difference I can see is that you are running an outdated qBittorrent, but other than that...
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