Package: virtualbox-ose Version: 1.6.2-dfsg-6 Severity: normal Tags: patch Virtualbox upstream bug #1775[1] is also present in Debian's virtualbox-ose versions in lenny (1.6.2-dfsg-6) and sid (1.6.6-dfsg-1) and manifests itself in repeating the following message numerous times in ~/.VirtualBox/Machines/sidux/Logs/VBox.log:
00:00:30.075 PATM: Disabling IDT e patch handler c0344888 This blows up the log file significantly (up to several 100 MB) and has also significant negative side effects on the system performance of my Athlon XP-2000+. Upstream, svn commits 12524, 12525, 12527, 12532, 12534 deal with this issue by rate limiting the PATM messages to 255 repititions (the commits above partly revert each other again, to keep the ABI for saved snapshots compatible). The attached patch, based on the aforementioned upstream commits, applies against virtualbox-ose 1.6.2-dfsg-6 and 1.6.6-dfsg-1 and fixes the problem for me. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] http://www.virtualbox.de/ticket/1775 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-5.slh.6-sidux-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.23 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.0.3-6 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libidl0 0.8.10-0.1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-3 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library ii libxslt1.1 1.1.24-2 XSLT processing library - runtime ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends: ii virtuabox-ose-mod 1.6.6-dfsg-1+2.6.26-30 VirtualBox modules for Linux (kern Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests: pn bridge-utils <none> (no description available) ii virtualbox-ose-s 1.6.6-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - kern -- debconf information: * virtualbox-ose/upstream_version_change: true
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