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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[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I have no idea, but if I had to take a wild guess, I would blame blocksizes.

I'm probably wrong because, qbittorrent probably seeds big blocks anyway, but let's say theoretically that qbittorrent wants to read 512bits of data from your harddrive that uses 4096bit blocks. Then for every 512bits the harddrive has to read the entire block of 4096bits.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 4 weeks ago

The blocks are usually on the scale of 64KiB to 16MiB