 jdongEat A Beaver, Save A Tree.Premium
join:2002-07-09
Rochester, MI
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Re: Virtualbox, vmware server 2.x, same machine CPU leaking bug? |
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 JTCAlways Mount A Scratch Monkey
join:2002-01-09
USA | said by jdong:CPU leaking bug? Yep.
Seems to be limited to windows and linux guests running kernel 2.6.x, so far anyway.
Check »communities.vmware.com/message/1···#1327547
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jdongEat A Beaver, Save A Tree.Premium
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kudos:1 | Hah well if you're seeking low CPU usage, VirtualBox SUCKS at this. Even something like watch top within a VM generates obscene spikes of 20% CPU on the host the last time I used it. In fact I switched to VMWare *from* virtualbox when I ran a mini-VPS.
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JTCAlways Mount A Scratch Monkey
join:2002-01-09
USA | said by jdong:Hah well if you're seeking low CPU usage, VirtualBox SUCKS at this. Even something like watch top within a VM generates obscene spikes of 20% CPU on the host the last time I used it. In fact I switched to VMWare *from* virtualbox when I ran a mini-VPS. It's not so much the CPU usage, but that fact that the UI blows huge donkey phallis (phalli?) and that the CPU/load 'leaks' over time. Look at some of the graphs posted there, that's all but obscene. And VMWare has been dead silent on the problem, even though it's painfully obvious there is a problem.
At least, I've never heard of vbox having any type of problem like this. ESXi may not have this issue as well, but I don't like the lack of management tools that don't run on a *NIX system and the proprietary filesystem it uses.
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pabloMVM
join:2003-06-23
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said by jdong:Hah well if you're seeking low CPU usage, VirtualBox SUCKS at this. Even something like watch top within a VM generates obscene spikes of 20% CPU on the host the last time I used it. In fact I switched to VMWare *from* virtualbox when I ran a mini-VPS. Hi,
I use VirtualBox and on my Windows VM's, I don't see any huge consumption of CPU while the VM is relatively idle. I've seen in some lists people reporting high CPU though. Did you ever look at the VBox FAQ which mentions a potential work-around: »www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ - see Tickless Linux timer.
Cheers,
-pablo
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