bittorrent consuming 100% cpu

[Matthew Rench]

Hello,

Due to the recent security advisor, I upgraded my python port. Foolishly,
I managed to upgrade from version 2.4 to 2.5, which forced me to also upgrade
my bittorrent port (from version 3.x to 4.20.2_1,1). Unfortunately, I now
find that the bittorrent console app (/usr/local/bin/bittorrent-console)
now consumes 100% of my CPU, according to top. I am quite sure that even
5-10 instances of the previous version did not together use this much CPU.

So, I ktrace'd a running copy of bittorrent, and found the following,
repeated more or less continually:

493 python   1161045605.243985 CALL  poll(0x8138000,0x5,0xe)
493 python   1161045605.272699 RET   poll 0
493 python   1161045605.272750 CALL  gettimeofday(0x281dd788,0)
493 python   1161045605.272783 RET   gettimeofday 0
493 python   1161045605.273029 CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfec94,0)
493 python   1161045605.273097 RET   gettimeofday 0
493 python   1161045605.273865 CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfdf34,0)
493 python   1161045605.273955 RET   gettimeofday 0
493 python   1161045605.274837 CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfe014,0)
493 python   1161045605.274920 RET   gettimeofday 0
493 python   1161045605.275304 CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfdd14,0)
493 python   1161045605.275375 RET   gettimeofday 0
493 python   1161045605.276452 CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfec94,0)
493 python   1161045605.276543 RET   gettimeofday 0
493 python   1161045605.276758 CALL  poll(0x87ede20,0x3,0)
493 python   1161045605.276845 RET   poll 0
493 python   1161045605.276909 CALL  poll(0x8138000,0x4,0)
493 python   1161045605.276956 RET   poll 0
493 python   1161045605.276998 CALL  poll(0x8138000,0x5,0x14)
493 python   1161045605.302720 RET   poll 0

Since I don't know much about python, I'm at a loss to explain this. Has
anyone else had similar issues with newer versions of bittorrent? Is there
a different client I should be using?

mdr