Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:01:10 -0400 From: "Andy Greenwood" <greenwood.andy@gmail.com> To: "Matthew Rench" <lists@pelennor.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bittorrent consuming 100% cpu Message-ID: <3ee9ca710610170501q20197e7es72fde9f895190416@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061017004401.GA430@gandalf.pelennor.net> References: <20061017004401.GA430@gandalf.pelennor.net>
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I'd recommend transmission. You can get the source from http://transmission.m0k.org/. You can configure it for console use with ./configure --disable-gtk && gmake. It needs GNU make, BSD make won't work. Uses very little resources as it's written in C, so your python port won't matter. On 10/16/06, Matthew Rench <lists@pelennor.net> wrote: > Hello, > > Due to the recent security advisor, I upgraded my python port. Foolishly, > I managed to upgrade from version 2.4 to 2.5, which forced me to also upgrade > my bittorrent port (from version 3.x to 4.20.2_1,1). Unfortunately, I now > find that the bittorrent console app (/usr/local/bin/bittorrent-console) > now consumes 100% of my CPU, according to top. I am quite sure that even > 5-10 instances of the previous version did not together use this much CPU. > > So, I ktrace'd a running copy of bittorrent, and found the following, > repeated more or less continually: > > 493 python 1161045605.243985 CALL poll(0x8138000,0x5,0xe) > 493 python 1161045605.272699 RET poll 0 > 493 python 1161045605.272750 CALL gettimeofday(0x281dd788,0) > 493 python 1161045605.272783 RET gettimeofday 0 > 493 python 1161045605.273029 CALL gettimeofday(0xbfbfec94,0) > 493 python 1161045605.273097 RET gettimeofday 0 > 493 python 1161045605.273865 CALL gettimeofday(0xbfbfdf34,0) > 493 python 1161045605.273955 RET gettimeofday 0 > 493 python 1161045605.274837 CALL gettimeofday(0xbfbfe014,0) > 493 python 1161045605.274920 RET gettimeofday 0 > 493 python 1161045605.275304 CALL gettimeofday(0xbfbfdd14,0) > 493 python 1161045605.275375 RET gettimeofday 0 > 493 python 1161045605.276452 CALL gettimeofday(0xbfbfec94,0) > 493 python 1161045605.276543 RET gettimeofday 0 > 493 python 1161045605.276758 CALL poll(0x87ede20,0x3,0) > 493 python 1161045605.276845 RET poll 0 > 493 python 1161045605.276909 CALL poll(0x8138000,0x4,0) > 493 python 1161045605.276956 RET poll 0 > 493 python 1161045605.276998 CALL poll(0x8138000,0x5,0x14) > 493 python 1161045605.302720 RET poll 0 > > Since I don't know much about python, I'm at a loss to explain this. Has > anyone else had similar issues with newer versions of bittorrent? Is there > a different client I should be using? > > mdr > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- I'm nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour cream
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