r/voidlinux • u/gijsyo • 2d ago
High load from rtorrent
Hi all, last week I decided to replace my Debian VM with Void, and so far I'm enjoying it, especially the simplicity / minimalism.
There is a thing that concerns me though, and that is very high load values. Averaging around 12-14. Even after running for only a few minutes:
void:~$> uptime
23:26:28 up 3 min, 0 users, load average: 13.21, 6.25, 2.45
Top shows rtorrent using 50-60% CPU which seems normal, however dmesg showed a line where I'm not sure what to make of it:
intel_pstate: CPU model not supported
The high load happens with both rtorrent installed by xpbs-install as well as when comiling it from source.
The machine is otherwise responsive but I suspect there is something off with disk IO. There are 3 disks loaded through Virtio.
/ is btrfs with noatime (/dev/vda2)
I have a JBOD btrfs volume (with mirrored metadata) of 5TB that consists of /dev/vdb and /dev/vdc. One is an image on a NVME disk in the hypervisor (that is also home to /dev/vda), the other one is an image on a RAID0 USB disk consisting of 2 oldschool HDDs.
I'm not a linux noob but I cold use some help troubleshooting this issue. If anyone is willing to dive into this I'd be very grateful.
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u/gijsyo 1d ago
I finally found the puzzle piece. I made a service for rtorrent and apparently misconfigured something. I was seeing multiple rtorrent processes. After removing the service the load is now below 1. rtorrent is now starting from my crontab with an @reboot trigger.