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?
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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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.