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I'm running bitcoind and its using literally 100% of my primary SDD's throughput. This is making my computer run very slowly in some cases (eg saving files is absurdly slow). Is there a way to configure it to only us maybe 95% of the available throughput at max so other stuff can get through?
OS: Windows
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I don't think there's any way to configure bitcoin to self-limit.
That said, Windows has an IO scheduler, which shares read/write bandwidth between processes. You can tell this IO scheduler to deprioritize a specific process. This isn't directly accessible from Task Manager or Process Explorer, but there are two third-party programs, called Process Lasso and Process Hacker which are capable of changing this.
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(I think your problem is more likely to be a CPU bottleneck than IO, but you asked for this approach, and I assume you have a good reason.)
Thanks, I'll have to try this out! Disk usage us up at 100%, CPU is usage is hovering between 10-25% (maxing one core). – B T – 2017-12-15T22:08:27.263
This is not possible. Writing to disk is handled by kernel/OS, not by programs.
– Monstrum – 2017-12-14T22:57:31.2071
This is possible. Could you give more information about your operating system?
– Nick ODell – 2017-12-14T23:55:40.327@NickODell Windows (updated OP) – B T – 2017-12-15T02:45:58.140