[vbox-dev] questions about number of CPUs and host scheduling behaviour

[Bayard Bell]

Alexey,

I know the system can do it. I see VBox running at 400% (thus fully consuming 4 cores) when the VM is booting, but when I run load on it subsequent to that, utilisation tops out at ~200%, even though the system believes it is scheduling load for 4 cores.

I appreciate the help, but mostly I was trying to do a sanity check before filing a bug report. It seems filing one might be a quicker way to get someone with access to an OS X system to try to reproduce the issue.

Cheers,
Bayard

On 6 May 2011, at 10:55, Alexey Eromenko wrote:

> Try to start 4 processes, like:
> $ cat /dev/zero > /dev/null
> (or Solaris equivalent command)
> 
> ...and see if you can load all 4 cores.
> (I know only Windows and Linux.)
> -- 
> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
> 
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