On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 12:38:22PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Try adding divider=10 to the kernel boot command line for the guest. > This will make it use a 100HZ tick rate, instead of 1000HZ, lowering the > background idle load on the host. I doubt it accounts for 20%, but it is > always worth doing for RHEL5 kernels since they don't have tickless mode.
I was seeing 10 - 15% cpu for the kvm process too. After adding divider=10 this dropped to 1%. -- sven === jabber/xmpp: [email protected] _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
