does torrenting on my main PC the reason why its so sluggish?

I have 400+ torrenting seeding and downloading on my computer, but over the past year it has become agonizingly sluggish.

My OS is on an SSD, and the torrents are stored on a HDD along with, My Documents, Music, Pictures, etc are also stored on this HDD.

what are my options to remedy this?

the pc is an older build, but when I switch over to linux,everything is smooth and snappy.

21H2 19044.1645
840 PRO
4770K
16GB DDR3
Sabertooth Z87

You answered your own question.

Hi,

Make sure you do not seed over the capacity of your machine, or your bandwidth.

bro67 said:

You answered your own question.

Can you explain a bit more, i dont understand how this would affect my system even when the torrent program isnt running.

MaloK said:

Hi,

Make sure you do not seed over the capacity of your machine, or your bandwidth.

Things are still sluggish even when the program isnt running.

Ok,

Then your question is not really related... To your torrent server...

Start by trying to find where the bottle neck occurs in your system.

Does Task Manager show any significant unexpected CPU or HDD use?

firefox has a high power usage, i have about ten tabs open.
15% cpu usage, 40% memory.

LVTHER said:

I have 400+ torrenting seeding and downloading on my computer, but over the past year it has become agonizingly sluggish.

You're seeding 400+ torrents and yet Task Manager doesn't show your file i/o as totally swamped (when torrent client docs usually advise a max of ~20-30 torrents at a time)???

Or you are now a known torrent peer and your ISP now limits your uploads at peak times?

LVTHER said:

firefox has a high power usage, i have about ten tabs open.
15% cpu usage, 40% memory.

I have a few more tabs open... doesn't appear to slow my browsing.


(Of course I wouldn't try this with Chromium or any derivative...)