-f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i was looking at BitTorrent, and this caught my attention: > > --enable_bad_libc_workaround <arg> > enable workaround for a bug in BSD libc that makes file reads > very slow. (defaults to 1) > > anybody knows what does this mean, and is openbsd affected?
Yes, OpenBSD is affected. Which is why the BitTorrent port enables this setting. Otherwise the bt client proceeds to read(2) all data one byte at a time, which causes it to be absurdly slow while eating all the CPU it can get. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
