Host XP SP3 Guest FreeBSD 7.2 High CPU

[Jamik]

Host OS: XP SP3
Guest OS: FreeBSD 7.2
Processor: C2D (CPU with 2 cores)

I use FreeBSD without X. FreeBSD consumes practically no resources when in idle. But in my host OS VB always consumes 100% of one core of my two core CPU. So it uses 50% CPU constantly!

Any solution suggested to repair this?

[Perryg]

From other posts that have this problem.

To fix this, you have to build guest kernel with HZ=100 (kernel timer) and without tickless mode.

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18251

[Jamik]

Thanks for advice.

This does the job.

echo kern.hz=100 >> /boot/loader.conf

So in /boot/loader.conf a line should be added kern.hz=100

Then reboot and CPU load in HOST OS is down to zero in idle. So no rebuilding kernel or other stuff just this line does the job!

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/art ... or_freebsd

Here is where i found where to put the line. Problem solved!

[zero1eye]

This worked perfectly, thank you.

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