Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
#4750 closed defect (duplicate)
cyclic services.exe cpu consumption on Windows XP guest.
| Reported by: | nemo34 | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 3.0.4 |
| Keywords: | cpu load services.exe cyclic saturation | Cc: | Ubuntu 9.0.0 |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I am using VirtualBox 3.0.4 on Ubuntu 9.04 host and a vdmk image of my windows XP sp3 guest. CPU load has been an issue from the beginning. After two weeks, I have upgraded every driver I could find and attempted most combos of parameters I could
Please note I am running on a DELL Latitude D630 with an Intel DualCore, but I am declaring only one processor. All attempts to use 2 processors with IO-ACPI and VT-x enabled failed to boot.
After booting the VM, CPU usage on Host is stable at 46 - 48% CPU usage on Guest varies periodically from 5% to 100%. I isolated the servcices.exe as the CPU consumer and started shutting down services one after another but failed to locate the faulty one.
Remark one: 48% CPU usage on Host is a lot...
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Change History (3)
by , 15 years ago
| Attachment: | Windaube-2009-08-11-15-46-44.log added |
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comment:1 by , 15 years ago
| Resolution: | → duplicate |
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| Status: | new → closed |
IO-APIC overhead is a known problem and documented. Switch to VT-x.
IO-APIC overhead is discussed in another ticket.
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