On Wednesday 27 February 2008 at 12:39 pm, Brian J. Murrell penned about "Re: [vbox-users] XP guest sluggish and eating all CPU"
> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 12:28 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > I have two machines: a desktop and a duo core laptop. On both > > machines, at idle, the VM uses about 4-6% of the CPU. > > Yeah. I'm surprised at mine chewing 100%. Whatever is causing that > is probably at the root of all my problems. I wonder how I can go > about discovering why. A few more random thoughts: o From <http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ> Tickless Linux timer: VirtualBox currently does not work well on Linux kernels with tickless timer support (CONFIG_NO_HZ enabled). We are investigating the problem but in the meantime you should disable the tickless timer by disabling that config option or by adding nohz=off to the Linux kernel command line. o Have you tried the PUEL version of VirtualBox? o You can always `strace' the running process to see what it's doing. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Toll free: 888.459.1926 Fax: 603.720.7723 (US) Text Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
