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?
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?
Have you tried to limit the download speed? Steam needs to write the downloaded data on the disk. If it downloads less, it should write less.
This is how I fixed the problem of Steam downloads using all my resources.