Hello Michael, I just had an incident where VirtualBox.exe is taking 97% of the cpu for well over 20min. Did just what you suggested and still 98% of the cpu is used by VirtualBox.exe.
Thanks, -- Valmor > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:vbox-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Thayer > Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 4:40 AM > To: VirtualBox end user list > Subject: Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage > > Hello Valmor, > > Can you try killing the VBoxClient process on the guest (which manages > the shared clipboard and guest resizing) when you see this with "sudo > killall VBoxClient"? I have heard reports (which I can't yet reproduce) > that this process can block and drive up the CPU usage. The process can > be restarted by entering "VBoxGuest" at the command line. > > Regards, > > Michael > > de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have vbox-1.6 installed on a Windows XP host and a linux gentoo guest > > fully functional. More often than not, VirtualBox.exe suddenly takes up > > 98% of the CPU usage. The Windows machine becomes very slow and I have > > to shutdown the linux guest, quit vbox, wait for the CPU usage return > > not normal and start everything from the beginning. > > > > Is there a fix for this or a reason for this sudden race? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Valmor > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
