There was already a discussion about CPU usage a few weeks ago ( I participated,
the subject was "20% CPU usage ?").
 
Regards,
David

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brad Templeton
Sent: Wed 14-Mar-07 07:59
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Subject: Re: [vbox-users] Using 100% CPU



On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:03:47AM +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > And since I can't get WinXP to work with the virtual box video driver,
> > I am running win2k.  That works fine (except for odd crashes if I
> > run command.com directly) but I notice now that when it sits idle
> > it is using 100% of one of my CPUs.    It actually does not do
> > that when booting, only after sitting idle.
>
> Windows 2000 has no command.com. It uses cmd.exe instead.
>
> > The task manager in Win2K shows 0-1% CPU usage as would be
> > expected.  No screen saver or anything else running except the
> > system idle task.   Is Vbox unable to virtualize the idle task
> > to nothing?
> >
>
> What Host OS you use? Ubuntu ?
>
> I can't really help, except that some kernels perform better than others.
> HINT: try get/build a different kernel.
>

Yes, ubuntu.  2.6.17, pretty recent.

Are you suggesting this is a normal behaviour for the VM?  I would
have thought an idle guest would mean an idle VM.   Windows XP
as a guest does not have the problem -- is it a problem with Win2K
guests?

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