WIP: add some CPU usage and thread-pinning tunings to try and reduce CPU

config/vm.args

@@ -7,3 +7,14 @@
 ## we are time warp safe
 +c true
 +C multi_time_warp
+
+# don't steal CPU from other processes
++sbwt very_short
++sbwtdio none
++sbwtdcpu none
+
+# pin schedulers to threads
++stbt db
+
+# disable load compaction, try to evenly load CPUs
++sub true

priv/plot.gpt

@@ -1,14 +1,20 @@
 set xdata time
 set timefmt "%s"
-set xrange [time(0) - 24*60*60:]
+
+if (!exists("interval")) interval=12
+
+set xrange [time(0) - interval*60*60:time(0)]
+set yrange [0:500]
+
+
 #set term x11 1 noraise
 set term qt noraise
 
 plot "/tmp/miner-chain-stats" using 1:2 with lines title "interval", \
      "/tmp/miner-chain-stats" using 1:3 with lines title "txns", \
      "/tmp/miner-chain-stats" using 1:4 with lines title "avg interval", \
      "/tmp/miner-chain-stats" using 1:5 with lines title "median interval", \
-     "/tmp/miner-chain-stats" using 1:6 with lines title "avg txns", 
+     "/tmp/miner-chain-stats" using 1:6 with lines title "avg txns"
 
 pause 15
 reread