On Thursday 20 September 2007, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > On 9/20/07, Pablo Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If so, try booting your host kernel with the nohz=off option. > > > > > > > > I'll try the above. > > > > > > Just to follow up, passing the above kernel parameter solved the > > > problem. I read up a bit on CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and this is a good thing > > > to save power. If I get a chance, I may try the latest svn snap .. > > > > It's not just about power -- NOHZ (also called tickless kernels) can > > make Virtualization faster. All types of Virtualization - because > > there will be less overhead. > > > > But this all is just in theory. > > Indeed, using a tickless Linux kernel as _guest_ induces less overhead > since there are less world switches between the host and the guest. > > But I'm talking about nohz=off for the _host_ Linux kernel!
Sorry for the cross-posting but it is appropriate here. ... Or compile the kernel appropriately. Question is: How does ticklessness effect audio? Realtime-preemptive kernels? Other multimedia? _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
