Steam Download Speed Stuck At 0
Right so I noticed that native steam client got issues when downloading and giving 'Busy writing to disk' Searched for it and noticed that this is a limit to my harddrive. However i noticed that it does not happen when running Windows client in Wine.Both clients are downloading to a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB harddrive running EXT4. I get no warnings that the drive is busy when running wine client.
Steam Download Speed. And I get a 5.5mb/s download. 1mbps = 0.125mb/s which would make mine around 6.25 total bandwidth and it may not be using the full amount because of QoS (quality of service- reserves a small amount of b/w for the system to use) or my ISP slightly throttling my connection or there's just a high amount of traffic.
Also the tried it twice on each client and the results was the same as shown below.Nothing else is running on that drive and the only files are the steamapps from those clients. Steam LinuxSteam system info:Steam WineSteam system info (wine). The reason for this – at least on Linux – is most likely that Steam is using fsync too aggressively. Mix that with the write barrier support of Ext4 (not necessarily the file system, if you use ext4 for reading/writing to ext3/2, then you'll see the problem there as well) and you get very poor writing performance.
Just check what iotop says and you'll find jbd2 at the very top.The solution is: less aggressive fsyncA workaround: remount your file system with barrier=0 when you run Steam.(For reference, see, especially Theodore Ts’o's comments.). I am experiencing the same issue. I have seen this in som older tickets specially in.My symptoms are that I try to download a game to be installed on linux.
- Help with erratic download speeds Steam by Avalon011. But on Steam it's always jumping up and down and crashing to 0 a lot. 0 - Collapse. Then you are likely stuck.
- Help Steam downloading drops to 0 bytes/sec frequently. I tried changing download region and clearing download cache so far, but the download rate still drops and is low for my internet speed. Other ideas or suggestions? Edit: I am using steam beta client.
The client downloads som data then gets stuck in writing to disk. Ages go by where most of the GUI in the steam client freezes up.I have seen that many people suggest that Steam is just busy with IO. So I looked at the process specfic IO and overall disk IO. None are even close to be at full throtle. The steam process who manages the IO for the game sometimes tuches 99.99% of all disk IO whis is about 130 KB/s never above 150 KB/s.
Same goes for jbd2. It does go up to 99.99% more frequent. But I would hardly say all the time. Quite literary half the time there is no IO going in for any process.So I also looked at the overall disk IO: Total DISK READ: 0.00 B/s Total DISK WRITE: 102.82 K/sActual DISK READ: 0.00 B/s Actual DISK WRITE: 125.67 K/sThis is a snapchot copy+pasted from iotop but showes what a most values are when they are not 0.I then used gkrellm to monitor the specifik partition I use for my Steam install (sda2) and to have something to compare i simply used my entire main disk (sdc). I also setup alerts to show a warning if IO rose above 30 KB/s for more than 1 secund.
And an Error if it rose above 40 KB/s for more than 1 secund. I do get the alert, but rarley.
About maby two that blinks past in the timespan of 1 minute.I also noticed that when I pause the download, and have started Steam from a terminal, I get loats of these errors before the download goes into paused mode: /home/buildbot/buildslavesteam/steamrelclientubuntu12linux/build/src/tier1/./tier1/fileio.cpp (2965): Assertion Failed: Failed to determine free disk space for, error 2I have seen quite a few of these googling the internet, but no real fix. Least not one that works for me. My disk is local, mounted with barrier=0. Not symlinked in any way. Running an ext4 filesystem that has about 1.3 TB of free space, 4.4 GB of used and is solely used for Steam games.I tried to test if the disk would show similar bad performance with other tasks, so I used caja to simply copy a folder containing about 13 GB of data in a couple of files.
Result below:PID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO COMMAND-4859 be/4. 62.38 M/s 62.44 M/s 0.00% 82.08% caja -n poolDownloaded and setup steam windows client with wine. Got same download speeds and same symptom of it getting stuck in Writing to disk, while iotop shows that not particulary much is happening on the disk.Below is my System information running Steam client API v017, package version. It is beta, but I have already tried stable, and gives exactly the same symptoms.
I forgot in my previous super-comment;Someone mentioned that using a package called 'dnsmasq' would fix this, but I couldn't get it to work. I will try dnsmasq again.I have tried this as well. I have dnsmasq (full, caching enabled one) up and running. And yes, it does fix the issue where it takes 1 min a click when you are browsing in the Store part of the Steam client.Also, updating the client itself goes really fast. The whole update download tok a couple of seconds. Not sure if this is just working, or if it is working as a result of dnsmasq.However dnsmasq does not improve downloading games.
Mainly because what it does is to cache DNS querys locally on your macinge. And downloading the data is not the problem in this case. When my Steam client is actually downloading I get great speeds. But since the problem is somewhere in the 'write and fix data onto the disk' department I have a hard time seeing dnsmasq fixing it.But if you get it up and running and it solves your issue I sure would like som notes on what you did. I just made an interesting discovery.
I have installed the steam client and all its libraries to my main system disk. But it is a really small disk (80 GB, it has been my system disk for a VERY long time).Now I tried to download a new game I just bought from the store. And then instead of choosing my large 1.3TB partiotion that I have set aside for games on another disk (that is not symlinked, bind mounted or anything and has the barrier=0 option.
I choosed to download to default media directory. And everything worked as a charme.Not sure if downloading to you default media riectory is the trick or if it was downloading to the same disk the Steam library and binaries are on is the trick.
I will try reinstalling it all on the larger disk and see if it still works if steam client is installed on another disk than the system disk.But there you have one posible solution. Make sure you use default media directory.
You can add more in Steam - Settings - Downloads - 'STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS'. Make sure there is only the default folder in there. And that folder should not be symlinked, bind mounted or anything. Just regular folders on the same partition.
It's not a problem of slow dns replies. It's a problem where Steam uses DNS lookups for every single connection. Resulting in its own unintentional DOS-attack agains your ISP by sending as much as several thousands of requests a second.
Most ISPs just shut you down then. And that is why you start experiencing drop in download speed, and slow browsing within steam store.When you add a DNS cach all those thounsands of lookups just hits you own machine and gets a reply in almost 0 ms. Instead of about 40 ms. When we are talking thounsends of hits a sekund that means a great performance boost if you get closer to 0 ms answer times.
I guess, this is not related to DNS repeaters efficiency, it's aboutSteam Client efficiency. And again, why not merging it into?From what i can se that post is not about same issue.
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