On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:48 PM, CeDeROM <cede...@tlen.pl> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Bernhard Fröhlich <de...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> You can try to switch to emulators/virtualbox-ose-legacy which is >> VirtualBox 4.1.x >> just to rule out that this is a vbox regression. Just be sure to power >> down the VMs >> first. >> It would be interesting to watch if the machine starts to swap when that is >> all >> running. > > Hello Bernhard, thank you for your hints, I can try with VBox 4.1, but > first I will try to get rid of the Ext2 from my system. On another > machine I have switched to UFS2 and the speed increased noticably. I > will let you know when I transfer all of those GB of data :-) > > Yes it looks like the cause of the hangup is the swap rush/deadlock > but I could not verify it as the machine was unresponsive. Still both > machines use 1GB of RAM per VM so still 2GB should be free. With other > applications running and the OS taking 1GB itself (what I have seen on > some other posts) this may happen :-(
VBox itself also needs some RAM and the emulated Graphics Card which can easily be 128M per VM. -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
