azureus HELL

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zxy · Post by **zxy** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:37 pm

I had no-2.6.18-no2 installed and changed to mm-2.6.19_rc5-r2.
no kernel was running ok, until lately, maybe it was time to recompile it, as I updated many apps, (dbus, ...)
but mm runs fine now and azureus too. Azureus runs now for 1 day with no problems.

Dan Forever · Post by **Dan Forever** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:06 pm

Salius wrote:
zgredek wrote: So, it's java to blame, not azureus or hardware?

I'm not sure but what if gentoo hangs even with azureus turned off?
Yes, it is very likely Java to blame as opposed to Azureus, but it could be either at this point. Or neither for that matter

My system seems pretty stable without azureus. I haven't really got any other java programs to test to see if it's the vm, but I would have thought if it were the vm, switching to a different implementation would have fixed that.

thestick · Post by **thestick** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:44 am

i had the same problem with azureus when i was using reiser4 on the partition that i was downloading on.
it just froze my mouse and keyboard and everything in 1-2 hrs.

so i guess it was the filesystem
what filesystem do you use?

zgredek · Post by **zgredek** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:49 pm

I'm saving downloads on a XFS partition. Shouldn't cause problems IMHO.

sonicbhoc · Post by **sonicbhoc** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:57 pm

zxy wrote:I had no-2.6.18-no2 installed and changed to mm-2.6.19_rc5-r2.
no kernel was running ok, until lately, maybe it was time to recompile it, as I updated many apps, (dbus, ...)
but mm runs fine now and azureus too. Azureus runs now for 1 day with no problems.

switching kernels also made my beryl performance go through the roof - at first it was barely crawling around and redraws in firefox and konqueror and amarok took ages.

Kernels can make a larger difference than I originally thought...

zgredek · Post by **zgredek** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:30 pm

I will try a 2.6.19 kernel, then. I don't think it will make much more difference but that's the only thing left right know...

srz · Post by **srz** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:22 am

I also had similar problems with Java, and with the new kernel & emerge update the problems have gone.

StifflerStealth · Post by **StifflerStealth** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:24 pm

Just a suggestion: KTorrent is now in version 2.1 Beta and in portage. You may want to give that a try. Azureus for me takes a long time to start up and KTorrent is instant, it even supports the IP Filtering and the loading of the same database that safe peer uses.

Just a suggestion.

Now on to thread related things
I have this issue that you describe, as I mentioned earlier. Now that I think about it, the one thing that I did was to lower the disc cacheing thing. If Disc caching was off, it ran like crap, if the space allowed for it was too much, then Azureus crashed like you describe. I think I have it set at a 2 meg cache now. You could try playing with those numbers. I don't know if you tried this yet or now. But Like I said before, I have had it with Java and Azureus.

Cheers.

thestick · Post by **thestick** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:07 pm

what partitition are you using for your / fs?

zgredek · Post by **zgredek** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:01 pm

StifflerStealth wrote: Just a suggestion: KTorrent is now in version 2.1 Beta and in portage. You may want to give that a try. Azureus for me takes a long time to start up and KTorrent is instant, it even supports the IP Filtering and the loading of the same database that safe peer uses. Just a suggestion.

Thanks for the suggestion but as I saw some days ago, ktorrents need to be worked on for some more time to be actually usable.

StifflerStealth wrote: Now on to thread related things
I have this issue that you describe, as I mentioned earlier. Now that I think about it, the one thing that I did was to lower the disc cacheing thing. If Disc caching was off, it ran like crap, if the space allowed for it was too much, then Azureus crashed like you describe. I think I have it set at a 2 meg cache now. You could try playing with those numbers. I don't know if you tried this yet or now. But Like I said before, I have had it with Java and Azureus.

Cheers.

Disk cache makes sense... It's now set to 4MB, before it was more (16, 32MB or so). Will check if it helps.

Thanks for some clues:)

@thestick
Whatever your point is, I'm using XFS for my downloads and ext3 for /. Nothing fancy.

surfmasta · Post by **surfmasta** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:40 pm

I've got the same problem here. And i checked everything. I ran memtest86+ for 3 days without errors, compiled 3 or 4 different kernels, updated to newer versions of Azureus, recompiled my whole system with emerge -aeND world and system and recompiled Azureus with all deep dependencies and and and...
It cannot be java-specific, cos i'm running eclipse for many days without shutting it off.
What is very mysterious, Azureus freezes my X, so i cannot move my mouse, cannot use the keyboard, ... => reset-button.
When i'm using aMule, then it reboots my system after a while (1h or 30min, different every time). So i recompiled aMule with all its dependencies, but the still reboots.
What i noticed is, that my prism54 adapter crashes sometimes when running these apps, so i haveto rmmod prism54; modprobe prism54 to get into net again. Something bad goes wrong here and i dont know what...
So my new theory is, that the bug is traffic-dependent, so i will test to download some big files parallely or so.

tomalakborg · Post by **tomalakborg** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:01 am

hey guys - I wanted to chime in because I think I have the same problem.

I recently upgraded from 2.6.17-something to 2.6.18-r4, as well as some other system updates (azureus was not one of them).

It torrented fine for a while, but then it's doing this BS thing where it dies after 50-75mins. Complete X lockup, no hope of saving it. I ran the X session from an ssh session to see if I could recover some output, but I got nothing. Are there azureus/java logs I can check out?

I'm going to try a new kernel and -aeDN world + revdep-rebuild

-Bill

UPDATE
After the world remerge, things worked for a whole day! Then they failed again :(
I tried everything, rolling back kernel, uninstalling sun-jdk 1.6 (although even with 1.6, azureus was set to use 1.5... shouldn't have made a difference). There's no difference between azureus and azureus-bin as far as this problem is concerned (although =azureus-bin-2.3.something will only last a few minutes). I'm convinced that this is a java problem. I swapped the hard drive into an identical machine that was running win2k without problems, so it's not hardware.

Any ideas? This is frustrating to no end!
-Bill

UPDATE
This is the last thing I can think of... when I did my system update I changed the default java compiler from "javac" to "jikes javac" in /etc/java-config/build/compiler.conf. I'm changing back to only javac and we'll see what happens

xante · Post by **xante** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:10 pm

Azureus for some reason was eating up my bandwidth. I shutdown all torrents and came back to my computer an hour later finding the activity extremely high for a desktop PC with only a single user. I switched to rtorrent and the problems have simply ceased. My upload and download rates are much more accurate as well. Azureus also showed that there were so many seeds yet I could not connect to any of them. Even if there were like 3000 seeds and 150 peers. It still would not connect to the seeds. Im not sure if rtorrent has an option to display seeds/peers but for the 5 hours ive been using it, Im much happier.

zgredek · Post by **zgredek** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:58 am

tomalakborg wrote: hey guys - I wanted to chime in because I think I have the same problem.

I recently upgraded from 2.6.17-something to 2.6.18-r4, as well as some other system updates (azureus was not one of them).

It torrented fine for a while, but then it's doing this BS thing where it dies after 50-75mins. Complete X lockup, no hope of saving it. I ran the X session from an ssh session to see if I could recover some output, but I got nothing. Are there azureus/java logs I can check out?

So you have the same problem... You can turn on azureus logs (options -> logging) but, at least I, couldn't find anything unusual there.

tomalakborg wrote: I'm going to try a new kernel and -aeDN world + revdep-rebuild

As to a new kernel I recommend you try the newest possible -mm. Also, examine your network, we might not be alone here:)

tomalakborg wrote:
UPDATE
After the world remerge, things worked for a whole day! Then they failed again
I tried everything, rolling back kernel, uninstalling sun-jdk 1.6 (although even with 1.6, azureus was set to use 1.5... shouldn't have made a difference). There's no difference between azureus and azureus-bin as far as this problem is concerned (although =azureus-bin-2.3.something will only last a few minutes). I'm convinced that this is a java problem. I swapped the hard drive into an identical machine that was running win2k without problems, so it's not hardware.
Any ideas? This is frustrating to no end!

Think logically - you changed the kernel - no problem for a whole day, then it started... It clearly depends on the kernel, not java version (I checked whatever java was available) or hardware. You may also want to switch your network card and I suggest you choose _not_ a realtek chipset, they're cheap, popular but poor when it comes to performance. The second idea is about security. I sounds kinda strange for Linux but as torrent network grew significally we may be experiencing more and more of such anomalities...

tomalakborg · Post by **tomalakborg** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:17 pm

Agreed on the "think logical" part - I was thrashing a bit there.

I know it's not hardware because I swapped the hdd into a similar machine and got the same problem. Both machines had integrated intel pro100 NICs (no issues I can recall, and I worked with these machines, dell gx400s, for years) - and both machines had my fav. 10/100 NICs, the 3com cyclone/tornado chipset. Tried them both, no change. Good call on the realtek, they're junk.

Just to get my torrent box back up, I dropped a new drive in and installed ubuntu and azureus-gcj (notice my avoidance of java at all costs)- for what it's worth, I like some of the gui-ease-of-use parts, but at the same time I feel encumbered by the gui/ubuntu admin tools. Sometimes I wanna edit a conf file like a whiskey drinkin', lumberjackin', I-know-what-i'm-doing-that's-why-I'm-editing-this-file-thank-you-very-much, gentoo usin' manly man.

My ubuntu rant aside, I'm going to change the kernel forward (I already rolled back to the previous kernel - wouldn't that be good enough?) and hope for the best. I'll update this post with results!

Bill

SiO · Post by **SiO** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:10 pm

I use the curses version of the original BT client. and it works like a charm!

zgredek wrote:Runnig a torrent client through wine where there is (or at least SHOULD be) a decent native client is nonsense...
I fired up azureus 2.5.0.0 and it seems a lot faster, will see if it crashes just like the previous version.

bittorrent wants to emerge ~20MB of stuff and packages I clearly don't want on my system...This is the last thing I'm gonna check.

I guess you're talking about wxGTK, If you want a GTK interface, you can disable the "gtk" USE flag and use gnome-btdownload for a really simple client, or get Deluge (although quiet buggy)

sirdilznik · Post by **sirdilznik** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:34 pm

Ast0r wrote: The ktorrent client is not at all configurable. I wasn't ever able to get it to work in active mode. But with the regular bittorrent client, you can set up the port to use. That's probably why you were having trouble with ktorrent: because it doesn't have any (obvious) way to change the port to listen on. So ...

There isn't? I guess I was hallucinating when I took this screenshot (and yes, you could do this months ago too.). Anyway KTorrent is quite mature and full featured. I tried all the torrent clients out there and KTorrent and Azureus are the only ones that satisfy my tastes, but KTorrent's integrated search is the reason why I use it (that and avoiding Java apps like the plague

). But I'm not here to change your mind about which client to use. Azureus is a fine program and does the job well.

I had a similar problem a while back when running a torrent client. It would run fine for a seemingly random amount of time (usually 15 min - 2 hours), then it would completely lock my machine up and I would have to reboot. The problem would up being Adaptive File Readahead in my kernel config. Once I disabled that feature and recompiled my kernel, the problems went away. My torrents download/upload fine for days at a time regardless of which client I use now. I wonder if maybe you have Adaptive File Readahead enabled in your kernel?

Ast0r · Post by **Ast0r** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:42 pm

sirdilznik wrote:
Ast0r wrote: The ktorrent client is not at all configurable. I wasn't ever able to get it to work in active mode. But with the regular bittorrent client, you can set up the port to use. That's probably why you were having trouble with ktorrent: because it doesn't have any (obvious) way to change the port to listen on. So ...
There isn't? I guess I was hallucinating when I took this screenshot (and yes, you could do this months ago too.).

Back when I used it there were no such options, or at least it was not very obvious how to get them. I still prefer the standard bittorrent client with gtk support as I get very good speeds with it.

tomalakborg · Post by **tomalakborg** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:43 am

sirdilznik wrote: I had a similar problem a while back when running a torrent client. It would run fine for a seemingly random amount of time (usually 15 min - 2 hours), then it would completely lock my machine up and I would have to reboot. The problem would up being Adaptive File Readahead in my kernel config. Once I disabled that feature and recompiled my kernel, the problems went away. My torrents download/upload fine for days at a time regardless of which client I use now. I wonder if maybe you have Adaptive File Readahead enabled in your kernel?

Blast! I just blew out my gentoo install without backing .config up (my kernel config is very light and easy to remember what devices to enable stuff for)

I'm going to try that right friggin' now and check it out. I'll bet that was one of the things I just figured "why not" and said yes to when I upgraded my kernel and ran 'make oldconfig' - then again, it's not a new feature, and if my old kernel worked fine with azureus... at any rate let me give that a shot. Unfortunately now I've changed way too many variables to be sure that's the culprit. I'll update this post with results!

surfmasta · Post by **surfmasta** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:25 pm

Has got somebody straced azureus/amule? I have tried it out right now for some minutes, but the machine doesnt hang, so i'll try it later for a longer time.

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strace -o azureus.trace azureus > azureus.log
strace -o amule.trace amule > amule.log

Files can be very large, but maybe we can see at what point it hangs

surfmasta · Post by **surfmasta** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:24 pm

Hi, somebody solved this problem at this time? I'm still having this problem and have no idea.
Yesterday i updated my whole system again and compiled a new genkernel. But the mysterious system-crashes are not azureus/amule-dependent, when i'm downloading a lot of files in firefox parallel, then it crashes after a time, or when eclipse makes the index for code-completion when scanning a lot source-files...
I've no idea

surfmasta · Post by **surfmasta** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:58 am

Some interesting news from my side

I deactivated my prism54-wireless card and using the internet via lan-cable right now. The system isnt crashing/freezing on these apps anymore. But now i have the problem that the time where a freeze should occur, my network-connection breaks up. I can reactivate with /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart and it works again. The messages that appear in dmesg are:

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e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
...

lspci:
02:07.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)
02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

uname -a:
Linux matrix 2.6.19-gentoo-r1 #2 SMP Wed Dec 6 23:57:22 CET 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Any ideas?

zgredek · Post by **zgredek** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:00 pm

Try this: disable the onboard card (the intel one) in BIOS and add another one (non-intel). Check whether the problem still exists. I have a suggestion that it might be bacause of a faulty network card and/or drivers that cannot sustain the increased load.