High CPU usage during Openserver 5.0.7 installation

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cyruspy
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High CPU usage during Openserver 5.0.7 installation

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Hi, i'm seeing high values for CPU usage by "System" during Openserver installation. Is there any known workaround for "Other" guests?. I have Hardware Virtualization enabled, USB and IO/APIC disabled. The host is using IDE emulation. Any ideas?

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procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- -----cpu------
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 1  4 360416  42040  13432 1585984    8    0   158    69 4958 8257 18 50 29  3  0
 2  0 360408  29152  13484 1595780    8    0   599    21 4235 10114 21 48 29  2  0
 2  0 360408  30772  13608 1595924   40    0   121 10869 3943 8176 17 45 29  9  0
 1  2 360396  30400  13740 1596208    0    0    65    59 3718 9320 17 50 30  3  0
 1  0 360384  29424  13836 1597428   16    0   330    24 3726 8181 16 50 32  2  0
 1  0 360376  29300  13836 1598004   48    0   150     0 3759 7915 18 50 30  2  0
 1  2 360264  25696  13948 1601112  203    0   726    62 3749 8337 18 51 25  6  0

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  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 9341 ciro      20   0  922m 552m  26m S   99 16.9  13:50.83 VirtualBox
 2484 ciro      20   0  441m  14m 9700 S    8  0.4   4:37.51 kwin
 1666 root      20   0  445m  23m 6796 R    8  0.7   6:50.30 Xorg
 2972 ciro      20   0 1199m  69m  25m S    3  2.1   9:44.30 amarok
Perryg
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Re: High CPU usage during Openserver 5.0.7 installation

Post by Perryg »

Wow I didn't think Openserver would even run on VBox That's SCO Unix right?
If you are using VT-x/AMD-v then you should have IO APIC enabled.
cyruspy
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Re: High CPU usage during Openserver 5.0.7 installation

Post by cyruspy »

I wasn't aware of that...

Second try, with IOAPIC enabled..

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  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
15656 ciro      20   0  921m 566m  41m S   99 17.4   1:49.64 VirtualBox
 1666 root      20   0  430m  30m 5368 S    4  0.9  26:14.71 Xorg
15507 ciro      20   0 1028m 139m  53m S    4  4.3   0:23.18 amarok
 2484 ciro      20   0  442m  17m  11m S    2  0.5  12:27.04 kwin
 2530 ciro      20   0  247m  20m 9680 S    1  0.6   0:26.60 konsole

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procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- -----cpu------
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 1  0 181804 145756  78532 2106184    0    0  3046  3046 4815 11071 15 33 36 17  0
 1  0 181800 121832  78532 2130268    0    0  5350    86 4055 14884 19 51 28  1  0
 2  0 181800  95732  78532 2156320    0    0  5530    35 3755 10488 12 49 39  1  0
 1  0 181800  69816  78532 2184068    0    0  5376    25 3815 10007 13 49 35  3  0
 1  0 181800  42336  78532 2211836    0    0  5453   126 4046 11769 12 49 39  0  0
Seems to make no difference...
Perryg
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Re: High CPU usage during Openserver 5.0.7 installation

Post by Perryg »

Does it work? Even with the high CPU?
See section 1.4. Supported host operating systems of the VBox Users Guide.
cyruspy
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Re: High CPU usage during Openserver 5.0.7 installation

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Yes, it works. What should I look for in that section?, openSUSE is supported as host...
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Re: High CPU usage during Openserver 5.0.7 installation

Post by Perryg »

Oops I should have said supported guests.
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes
Not a lot of UN*X stuff works in VBox. If it does it usually does not work well. Most of them don't even have guest additions available.
cyruspy
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Re: High CPU usage during Openserver 5.0.7 installation

Post by cyruspy »

Yup, i know it's currently not supported, but works...
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