Hi, I'm having a problem with my qBittorrent setup that I can't quite debug or find information on.

I'm seeding from a hard drive and I get something like 5-15 MBps of seeding capacity depending on the day. However I noticed upon inspecting a system monitor (I am running Debian 13) the total disk IO read was about 4x the seeding speed.

I've tweaked the advanced settings all I can to no avail. I am using the version of QBit from Devian 13 main. It's 5.Something.

Would anyone have insight on this problem? I'll take anything at this point. The application is using about 250MB of RAM.

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[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Don't know if this helps you but did you already try changing Disk IO Type to Simple pread/pwrite (in advanced settings)? It was meant to address some issues with disk read/write + RAM usage. Not something that affected me all that much but could be worth a look.

Was mentioned in the 5.0.1 release notes and in the github pages

https://www.qbittorrent.org/news

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/pull/21300

Beyond that I'd echo the other comment, try to just change settings you actually need to change. Oftentimes people make a whole ton of settings changes in their torrent client and then can't figure out how to get it back to normal.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This helped! Disk IO read is now a bit less than double the speed bandwidth! Much more reasonable. Thank you/:))))))

Edit: it has now steadied out to about 1.25x the seed traffic! Amazing!

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

I just changed it. I'll get back to you in a bit.