Constant CPU utilization of 20-40%
Constant CPU utilization of 20-40%
I am runing Virtualbox 1.5.2 on a Linux host, Ubuntu 7.10 32 bits
2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
The cpu utilization on the host is always at least 20-30% when the guest is running.
The guest itself is idle 0-1 % utilization.
Guest addons installed
Guest OS Suse Linux Enterprise 10 SP1
Anybody else having the same problem ?
Or even better a solution ?
Regards,
Wijnand.
2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
The cpu utilization on the host is always at least 20-30% when the guest is running.
The guest itself is idle 0-1 % utilization.
Guest addons installed
Guest OS Suse Linux Enterprise 10 SP1
Anybody else having the same problem ?
Or even better a solution ?
Regards,
Wijnand.
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I've seen this as well with a Windows XP SP2 guest on Fedora 7/8 host. People have mentioned using the nohz=off boot option for what appear to be similar problems, although I have yet to get it working for me:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1189
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1189
I have seen the posts with references to the nohz=off option.
Tried it, didn't fix the problem.
The posts with the nohz=off option seems to fix issues with virtualbox 1.40.
I am running virtualbox 1.52.
Maybe, just maybe vb 1.5.2 is not ready for the tickless kernel.
I hope they fix this bug soon, 20-30% utilization is no fun at all.
Tried it, didn't fix the problem.
The posts with the nohz=off option seems to fix issues with virtualbox 1.40.
I am running virtualbox 1.52.
Maybe, just maybe vb 1.5.2 is not ready for the tickless kernel.
I hope they fix this bug soon, 20-30% utilization is no fun at all.
Same Problem here
Same Problem here
Vbox 1.5.2 (1.5.0 had even 50% - 60% Host CPU Usage)
Host: windows XP SP2
Guest: Linux SuSE 9.3
Guest CPU load is almost 0% but VirtualBox.exe uses 20-40% of the Host CPU.
nohz=off did not do the trick.
Is there a Solution?
Greetz SemidarK
Vbox 1.5.2 (1.5.0 had even 50% - 60% Host CPU Usage)
Host: windows XP SP2
Guest: Linux SuSE 9.3
Guest CPU load is almost 0% but VirtualBox.exe uses 20-40% of the Host CPU.
nohz=off did not do the trick.
Is there a Solution?
Greetz SemidarK
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Win2003 Guest, Ubuntu Gutsy Host
I can confirm that I also get the result.
I run V7.10 Gutsy X86_64 on the host, on an AMD that supports hardware virtualization. My guest in this case is a Windows 2003 server.
I have tried the following: -
Before I ran this under VirtualBox, I was running this exact same image with KVM (qemu) on the same machine and it ran with less than 1% CPU when the guest was idle. All I did was convert the qcow2 image to Raw, then convert it to VDI, then boot it.
Guest Additions have been installed with no difference.
Clipboard is disabled.
Something is not right.
Brilliant product apart from this however! Props to the developers.
If it helps (the developers that is!) I can make available both the virtual machine and the host (VRDP for the guest, NX for the host) for test purposes.
Brendan Grieve
I run V7.10 Gutsy X86_64 on the host, on an AMD that supports hardware virtualization. My guest in this case is a Windows 2003 server.
I have tried the following: -
- Enabling and Disabling Hardware Virtualization
Using the GUI virtualbox and VBoxVRDP
Before I ran this under VirtualBox, I was running this exact same image with KVM (qemu) on the same machine and it ran with less than 1% CPU when the guest was idle. All I did was convert the qcow2 image to Raw, then convert it to VDI, then boot it.
Guest Additions have been installed with no difference.
Clipboard is disabled.
Something is not right.
Brilliant product apart from this however! Props to the developers.
If it helps (the developers that is!) I can make available both the virtual machine and the host (VRDP for the guest, NX for the host) for test purposes.
Brendan Grieve
I have posted a bug (as far as I can see there is no duplicate as the others are for linux guests or windows hosts.).
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1233
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1233
very similiar thing happening to me with virtualbox.exe, just the usage is not constant it goes to 20% then it drops after a while and goes up again while the guest load is 0 (load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00)
Virtualbox 1.5.6
Host: win2k3, 4GB RAM, amd x2 4200+
guest: Linux version 2.6.18-6-486 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 Sun Feb 10 22:06:33 UTC 2008
Virtualbox 1.5.6
Host: win2k3, 4GB RAM, amd x2 4200+
guest: Linux version 2.6.18-6-486 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 Sun Feb 10 22:06:33 UTC 2008
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I had this problem before, but it seems to have disappeared over the past several weeks. I wonder if perhaps the upgrade to kernel 2.6.24 made the difference? I don't recall the upgrade to VB 1.5.6 alone making the improvement. But now with the combo of kernel 2.6.24 plus VB 1.5.6 with WinXP guest on Fedora 8 host, I see ~5% idle CPU usage rather than the 30-40% I saw previously. Anyone know what might have done the trick?