Chrome Freezes on Windows Guest

[ZoD]

I'm facing this issue that Chrome lags a lot in my windows guest.

And specifically on opening this particular website - www.tenderwizard.com / DDAAUCTION - it freezes. The whole guest machine freezes.

Please help to resolve this issue.

[ZoD]

PFA the logs

[socratis]

That site almost froze my host, OSX 10.11.6 / Firefox 70.0.1!
I don't think this is a VirtualBox issue, this is a specific website/browser issue.

Marking as [Invalid].

[ZoD]

The website is working fine for my host. OSX 10.14.4 / Chrome 78.0.3904.70.

This website is used by the Government of India for Land auctions. It works fine in windows host. Just not working in windows guest.

Can you please try it out once in your windows guest & windows host also(if possible). Might be a temp error when it froze your host OSX.

Thank you.

[ZoD]

Hi,

Can someone please help here?

Thanks,

[mpack]

Try cutting RAM allocation in half, increase cores to 2, and try a different browser.

[socratis]

A couple more notes besides what 'mpack' mentioned about the CPU, RAM settings:

00:00:01.990475 [/Devices/ahci/0/LUN#0/Config/] (level 5)
00:00:01.990478   BlockCache <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
...
00:00:14.313279 AIOMgr: Host limits number of active IO requests to 16. Expect a performance impact.

Go to the "VM Settings" » "Storage" » select your SATA controller » "Use Host I/O Cache", enable that.

00:00:01.990796 [/Devices/vga/0/Config/] (level 4)
00:00:01.990807   VMSVGA3dEnabled  <integer> = 0x0000000000000000 (0)
00:00:01.990809   VRamSize         <integer> = 0x0000000002000000 (33 554 432, 32 MB)

Go to the "VM Settings" » "Display" » "Screen". Enable 3D acceleration. Increase the VRAM to the max 128 MB.

[ZoD]

Did all the steps but the problem isn't resolved. PFA the new logs.

Reduced RAM to 2GB.
Increased cores to 2, then to 3.

Enabled Using host I/O.
Enabled 3D Acceleration with VRAM 128MB.

Also, used firefox this time but the same problem remains. Another update is that the VM Freezes on opening youtube.com as well. I think it has something to do with flash or something.

[socratis]

As far as your VM configuration/setup is concerned, it looks fine. Not that much that VirtualBox can do at this point, it seems that the resources required by this website are putting the Guest under a lot of "stress". Not sure what you could try next...

[fth0]

the resources required by this website are putting the Guest under a lot of "stress"

I can confirm that. When using a Linux Mint VM (2 vCPUs) with the Cinnamon desktop and the Firefox browser, the CPU resources are the stressed ones (memory and disk usage are low). The CPU load varies between 50% and 100% and is split between Firefox (40%) and Cinnamon (60%). Maybe an OS with a light-weight desktop would help; I suggest trying Linux Mint with the XFCE desktop.