Hi Pablo, On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > My laptop is currently running openSUSE 10.3, Beta 3 with all the > latest patches. > > I've installed VirtualBox 1.5.0 and although not supported, seems to > runs well. There is one niggling issue though. It seems to generate > tons of soft irq (ksoftirqd is at 30% busy). So much so the laptop's > CPU doesn't step down. > > I compiled the latest sources last week and it didn't make a > difference to the VM although it did help the main screen. The > compiled version of the main screen doesn't cause soft irq's. > > I believe openSUSE 10.3 is scheduled to be out in Oct, any plans to > provide VirtualBox support for it?
What a Linux kernel are you using? Is 'tickless timer support' enabled? If so, try booting your host kernel with the nohz=off option. And r4827 of the svn repository includes a patch which should help as well. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert innotek GmbH, http://www.innotek.de
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