On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 03:51:59AM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> David Coppa writes:
> > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Anthony J. Bentley <anth...@cathet.us> 
> > wrote:
> > > David Coppa writes:
> > >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Michael <lesniewskis...@gmail.com> 
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > So some have mentioned that epoch shouldn't be removed. Apologies as
> > >> > following [0] it only mentions epoch once and doesn't note that it has
> > >> > to stay on updates.
> > >> > [0]: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.html
> > >> > I also bumped the libary version as there were a lot of changes in the
> > >> > new libtorrent version that mean it can't be used with the older
> > >> > rtorrent application.
> > >> > Attached are the updated patches, further comments welcome!
> > >>
> > >> I'm testing it right now...
> > >> So it seems they finally solved the infamous problem with IPIs
> > >> (Inter-processor interrupts) going sky-high (in the order of ~900000
> > >> ipi) and thus bringing the system down to its knees.
> > >
> > > This has not been fixed. Today I opened both rtorrent and firefox and my
> > > system locked up within 10 minutes.
> > 
> > Please, can you try again while looking at ipi with 'systat 1'
> 
> Maybe I've been experiencing a different issue than you have. During a
> bad slowdown that produced visible jitter and killed all my IRC
> connections (nothing besides rtorrent, net/ii, and irssi was running),
> IPIs were under 50 but re0 interrupts spiked to over 500000. Is that
> something that should happen during even heavy rtorrent usage (80+
> torrents)? Currently it's holding at about 5600 re0 interrupts.

Fwiw, this rtorrent 0.9.4 update is now broken on powerpc... with the usual
atomic stuff.

.libs/libtorrent.so.21.0: undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_and_8'
.libs/libtorrent.so.21.0: undefined reference to `__sync_add_and_fetch_8'

Landry

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