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Often when downloading a game on steam my nvme drive gets pinned at 100% IO usage and my whole DE (gnome) can lock up at times. Is there a way to limit it so that this never happens?

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[-] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

This is how I fixed the problem of Steam downloads using all my resources.

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