VirtualBox

Ticket #11681 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

VBoxNetDHCP.exe wakes up CPU every 1ms, drains battery and makes noise

Reported by: Rustam Owned by:
Component: network Version: VirtualBox 4.2.10
Keywords: VBoxNetDHCP noise Cc:
Guest type: all Host type: Windows

Description

When VBoxNetDHCP.exe is running on my Win 7 32bit system, my laptop makes a high pitch noise (~1KHz) and the battery drains a lot faster than when it is not running. My suspicion is that VBoxNetDHCP.exe is waking up CPU every 1ms, also when no VM is active. I do not see a reason to do that in a DHCP daemon. Hence I see this as a defect/opportunity for improvement.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by frank

Did you start VBoxNetDHCP manually? Because AFAIR normally it wouldn't start if no corresponding VM is running. If you started VBoxNetDHCP manually, how did you do it (which command line options)?

comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by frank

Thanks for the report. The fix will be part of the next maintenance release.

comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by frank

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

Fix is part of VBox 4.3.22.

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