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High CPU usage
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 1:57 pm
by dinjo
Today onwards i started facing issue of high CPU usage during usage of qbittorrent and this came all of sudden , CPU peaks at 60% and load average reaches around 4 causing severe slowdown in media operations while watching movies via minidlna
Please note similar size torrent was getting downloaded perfectly fine till yesterday , please let me know how can i investigate this further, the memory usage is very low - 30MB
Re: High CPU usage
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 4:28 pm
by Switeck
Does CPU usage go down if you increase the refresh delay of qBitTorrent (advanced setting in ms) to 5000 ms and/or change qBT's cache settings to -1 (automatic)?
If not, please give more details about your qBT's settings...such as max connections allowed vs total peers+seeds actually connected and how many total torrents are loaded into qBT.
These issue reports might be related to your problem:
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/7104
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/7881
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/8273
Re: High CPU usage
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 10:59 pm
by magao
I've found that the biggest cause of high CPU usage is having lots of torrents and a low "Save resume data interval". At least when running in a VM on my QNAP qBT uses a lot of CPU to do this, and it can get to the point where the VM is constantly at 100% CPU.
My solution was to increase the interval to 5 minutes - increases the chance of losing resume data, but it's long enough that I only have periods of 100% CPU instead of all the time when I've got a lot of torrents.
Note that this isn't active torrents - torrents in the paused state cause this.
Re: High CPU usage
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 1:24 am
by dinjo
I'll provide the settings in a while I didn't mention the version is 3.3.16 on arm processor and high Cpu usage occurs only when I start downloading in idle state the load average is around 0.02
Re: High CPU usage
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 4:12 am
by dinjo
Below is my config , I'm running it headless with Web UI
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[AutoRun]
enabled=true
program=/root/extract.sh %D %N
[LegalNotice]
Accepted=true
[Network]
Cookies="__cfduid=df03b1461fd9626d1c9893fc7198f050e1488005391; HttpOnly; expires=Sun, 25-Feb-2018 06:49:51 GMT; domain=.maxmind.com; path=/", "__cfduid=da77c9288b913d37ab29fac159a5addd31505551626; HttpOnly; expires=Sun, 16-Sep-2018 08:47
:06 GMT; domain=.torrent.cd; path=/"
[Preferences]
Advanced\AnonymousMode=false
Advanced\IncludeOverhead=false
Bittorrent\AddTrackers=false
Bittorrent\DHT=false
Bittorrent\Encryption=1
Bittorrent\LSD=false
Bittorrent\MaxConnecs=200
Bittorrent\MaxRatioAction=0
Bittorrent\MaxUploads=8
Bittorrent\PeX=false
Bittorrent\uTP=false
Bittorrent\uTP_rate_limited=false
Connection\GlobalDLLimitAlt=0
Connection\GlobalUPLimit=0
Connection\GlobalUPLimitAlt=0
Connection\PortRangeMin=65239
Connection\Proxy\IP=0.0.0.0
Connection\Proxy\Password=
Connection\Proxy\Port=8080
Connection\Proxy\Username=
Connection\ProxyType=-1
Downloads\PreAllocation=false
Downloads\SavePath=/media/usbhd/
Downloads\ScanDirsV2=@Variant(\0\0\0\x1c\0\0\0\0)
DynDNS\DomainName=changeme.dyndns.org
DynDNS\Enabled=false
DynDNS\Password=
DynDNS\Service=0
DynDNS\Username=
General\Locale=
General\UseRandomPort=false
MailNotification\email=
MailNotification\enabled=false
MailNotification\password=
MailNotification\req_auth=false
MailNotification\req_ssl=false
MailNotification\smtp_server=
MailNotification\username=
Queueing\QueueingEnabled=false
WebUI\HTTPS\Enabled=false
WebUI\LocalHostAuth=false
WebUI\Password_ha1=@ByteArray(5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69)
WebUI\Port=8080
WebUI\ServerDomains=*
WebUI\UseUPnP=true
WebUI\Username=admin
Re: High CPU usage
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:57 am
by Switeck
Torrent file preallocate is disabled, so that can be a problem while downloading as opposed to a cpu and disk I/O meltdown at start unless you have a fast line and/or very slow HDD.
DHT, LSD, PeX, and uTP are disabled, so that should mean lower CPU usage.
You haven't gone crazy on max connections limit.
Half open connection limit might be high, it's not mentioned.
qBT's cache may be disabled and/or OS cache disabled as well...which might cause more CPU usage ironically.
Depending on how much you're uploading and how fast your line can upload, a limit of 8 upload slots may be too low...but that shouldn't cause CPU usage to be high at all.
Re: High CPU usage
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 4:24 am
by dinjo
I recompile the package yesterday and now it's failing to start
The Web UI administrator user name is: admin
qbittorrent-nox: symbol lookup error: qbittorrent-nox: undefined symbol: _ZN10libtorrent14create_torrentC1ERKNS_12torrent_infoEb
Re: High CPU usage
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:13 am
by Switeck
Hopefully someone who's compiled qBT's Linux versions can help... I can't.
Re: High CPU usage
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 5:11 am
by dinjo
It was failing due to conflicting with libtorrent , recompiled libtorrent and qbittorrent to resolve the issue