Constant High CPU Usage on Windows

[mohammedpatla]

• OS: Windows
• Version of IPFS Desktop 0.16.1
• System Specs: Ryzen 5900x (12core,24 thread processor), 32 GB RAM, Windows 10 latest build.

Describe the bug
Consistent high usage of CPU. It can go up to 80% at times, which is a lot of usages. I have only about 50GB of data pinned but not a lot of uploads or download going on either to commission this much usage.

The CPU usage drops some times in a cycle but picks up again and stays high for longer times than needed. Avg usage is about 35% of my CPU power that's 4 Cores running at full power for some reason.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install the latest version of the software.
2. Have some big pined data objects.
3. Leave it running in the background and monitor it through the task manager.

Expected behavior
At most, it should spike the CPU during a lot of usages, but keeping high CPU usage is very weird, as the Network and disk usage are also not followed.

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[SerafDosSantos]

I second this problem. I paused my instances until the problem is solved. My oldest CPU goes nuts once in a while with version 0.16.1, my newest one also goes high once in a while, but the fans doesn't scream for cooling with the latter.

[unbeatable-101]

Does this seem like your issue? ipfs/kubo#8256

[mohammedpatla]

@unbeatable-101 Looks like it, although I can't confirm if the solution quic-go/quic-go#3231 fixes it.

[unbeatable-101]

Try building go-ipfs from source, then tell ipfs desktop to use a custom binary. I'd provide one that I built, but you aren't on mac or linux.

[unbeatable-101]

ipfs.zip

I tried cross-compiling if you can't build yourself

[mohammedpatla]

@unbeatable-101 Nope that file does not work and I have not had much success in compiling from source.

[unbeatable-101]

What issues are you having?

[mohammedpatla]

@unbeatable-101 On further testing your IPF binary does work, I was just not running the daemon lol.

Just after launching it seems to work well, with no excess CPU usage or memory. Stays about 130 MB RAM usage and around 1% CPU usage with my build. Will let this run overnight and see how its in the morning.

[mohammedpatla]

I confirmed I don't use more than 300 MB in RAM. And CPU usage is between 0.1%-1.5%

Looks like this new binary has to be merged in, or wait until 0.91

[SerafDosSantos]

ipfs/go-ipfs#8256 fixed it for me, thanks @unbeatable-101 !

[unbeatable-101]

The fix will be officially released in 0.9.1