[sorry for the delay] On 2012-Dec-12 19:15:34 +0000, Martin Simmons <mar...@lispworks.com> wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:43:36 +1100, Peter Jeremy said: >> My VPS provider will not offer 32-bit FreeBSD guests because they use >> excessive (ESXi) host CPU time. I have done some experiments using >> VirtualBox on my FreeBSD/amd64 8-stable host and see the same. > >I can't repeat that with idle FreeBSD 8.0 guests running in VirtualBox 4.1.18 >on Linux kernel 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.x86_64. In fact, the 64-bit one uses 4.8% >of the CPU whereas the 32-bit one uses 4.2% (according to ps "bsdtime" >measured over 1000 seconds).
I repeated the test and couldn't reproduce my results - I wound up with results more like yours. I'm still trying to work out what would cause the change. -- Peter Jeremy
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