Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-14 Thread Serge
2012/6/13 Thomas Goirand wrote: Do you use 2.6 kernel and have FF profile and VB images on the same ext4 partition? My laptop setup is: - kernel 2.6.32-5 (Squeeze...) - RAID1 (replacing my thinkpad DVD ultrabay by a 2nd HDD) - LVM - dm-crypt - ext3 Yes, both the VB images and FF

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/11/2012 06:46 AM, Serge wrote: Do you use 2.6 kernel and have FF profile and VB images on the same ext4 partition? My laptop setup is: - kernel 2.6.32-5 (Squeeze...) - RAID1 (replacing my thinkpad DVD ultrabay by a 2nd HDD) - LVM - dm-crypt - ext3 Yes, both the VB images and FF

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On 13/06/12 13:46, Thomas Goirand wrote: Writing to my disk is normally quite fast, but I've noticed indeed that when it's VB that does it, it's slow. If I don't find a way, I guess I'll switch back to Xen with NAT... No opinion on VirtualBox, Xen or performance thereof, but kvm is also an

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/13/2012 09:14 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: On 13/06/12 13:46, Thomas Goirand wrote: Writing to my disk is normally quite fast, but I've noticed indeed that when it's VB that does it, it's slow. If I don't find a way, I guess I'll switch back to Xen with NAT... No opinion on

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:15:23PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 06/13/2012 09:14 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: On 13/06/12 13:46, Thomas Goirand wrote: Writing to my disk is normally quite fast, but I've noticed indeed that when it's VB that does it, it's slow. If I don't find a way,

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap? (was: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless)

2012-06-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/10/2012 11:55 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote: Well, if I start Virtual Box on my notebook (4 GB RAM), the system uses the swap partition. Frankly, I don't know what the fuck virtualbox is doing with its memory management, but I was tempted more than once to file a RC bug with a title like this

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:28:59AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 06/10/2012 11:55 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote: Well, if I start Virtual Box on my notebook (4 GB RAM), the system uses the swap partition. Frankly, I don't know what the fuck virtualbox is doing with its memory management, but I was

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: Let's put it this way: I can't run Virtualbox AND Firefox at the same time, or my laptop becomes unusably slow and non responsive. Am I the only one who experienced that? Is there something I didn't understand, or is it Virtualbox that has a problem?

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap? (was: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless)

2012-06-10 Thread Serge
2012/6/10 Thomas Goirand wrote: Let's put it this way: I can't run Virtualbox AND Firefox at the same time, or my laptop becomes unusably slow and non responsive. Do you use 2.6 kernel and have FF profile and VB images on the same ext4 partition? Can you reproduce that with 3.2 kernel? PS: