[vbox-dev] Thanks for "artifical load" fix in 5.0.2. Will it be applied to 4.3.X?

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Fri Aug 14 15:36:10 GMT 2015


On 08/14/2015 09:22 AM, Ramshankar wrote:
>
> VBox 4.3.x should not be affected by this problem.
>
> The "iprt-VBoxTscThr" kernel thread is part of the new code for
> VirtualBox 5.0.x towards TSC-delta computations and that was the thread
> doing the uninterruptible sleep that caused artificially high load.

Thanks for the explanation. Apparently, the OP on the openSUSE bug failed to 
describe his setup in an accurate manner, and I believed him. :(.

Larry







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