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I have two Unreal instances... a hub and a leaf. The hub runs fine but the leaf node frequently spikes to 100% CPU (i've tried with version 3.2.7 and 3.2.8.1). An strace of the process while it's spinning reveals a bunch of gettimeofday() calls:

gettimeofday({1293011289, 452279}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1293011289, 452308}, NULL) = 0
read(6, "", 11) = 0
gettimeofday({1293011289, 452369}, NULL) = 0
read(8, "", 11) = 0
gettimeofday({1293011289, 453113}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1293011289, 453223}, NULL) = 0
select(1024, [1 3], [], NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1293011289, 453324}, NULL) = 0
select(1024, [1 2 3 8], [], NULL, {1, 0}) = 1 (in [8], left {1, 0})
gettimeofday({1293011289, 453432}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1293011289, 453461}, NULL) = 0

the only place in the source where gettimeofday is explicitly specified is in random.c. /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail goes near zero during this time which makes me think this is definitely related to random number generation or SSL somehow. i use SSL on the server but there are a very small number of users (~20). CPU usage on the hub is effectively zero. any thoughts on how I can troubleshoot this further?

Although one can't tell it's a real bug at this point, it would be better if you report it on http://bugs.unrealircd.org/
(I only look at this forum once in a while, and other devs less or not at all, so.. for this kind of issues, bugs.* is much better)