VirtualBox 4.1.22 on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE problem: VBoxHeadless eats 100% CPU

2012-11-16 Thread Alex Chistyakov
Hello, My system is an amd64 box running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on top of ZFS. I try to setup a VirtualBox VM from an Ubuntu 12.04 Server installation CD in a headless mode using VNC. Top shows that VBoxHeadless process consumes 100% CPU almost all the time and it takes forever to boot from the CD im

Re: VirtualBox 4.1.22 on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE problem: VBoxHeadless eats 100% CPU

2012-11-16 Thread Alex Chistyakov
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Marek Salwerowicz wrote: > W dniu 2012-11-16 16:22, Alex Chistyakov pisze: > >> Hello, >> >> My system is an amd64 box running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on top of ZFS. >> I try to setup a VirtualBox VM from an Ubuntu 12.04 Server >>

Re: VirtualBox 4.1.22 on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE problem: VBoxHeadless eats 100% CPU

2012-11-17 Thread Alex Chistyakov
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Marek Salwerowicz wrote: > W dniu 2012-11-16 20:28, Alex Chistyakov pisze: > >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Marek Salwerowicz >> wrote: >>> >>> W dniu 2012-11-16 16:22, Alex Chistyakov pisze: >>> >>&g

Re: VirtualBox 4.1.22 on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE problem: VBoxHeadless eats 100% CPU

2012-11-17 Thread Alex Chistyakov
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Marek Salwerowicz wrote: > W dniu 2012-11-16 20:28, Alex Chistyakov pisze: > >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Marek Salwerowicz >> wrote: >>> >>> W dniu 2012-11-16 16:22, Alex Chistyakov pisze: >>> >>&g

Re: VirtualBox 4.1.22 on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE problem: VBoxHeadless eats 100% CPU

2012-11-17 Thread Alex Chistyakov
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Alex Chistyakov > wrote: >> >> Okay the situation has changed radically after upgrade to 4.2.4, >> VBoxHeadless does not consume 100% CPU anymore but now I

Re: VirtualBox 4.1.22 on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE problem: VBoxHeadless eats 100% CPU

2012-11-17 Thread Alex Chistyakov
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Alex Chistyakov wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Adam Vande More > wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Alex Chistyakov >> wrote: >>> >>> Okay the situation has changed radically after upgrade to 4.2.4, &

VirtualBox 4.2.4 on FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE problem: VMs behave very different when pinned to different cores

2012-11-23 Thread Alex Chistyakov
Hello, I am back with another problem. As I discovered previously setting a CPU affinity explicitly helps to get decent performance on guests, but the problem is that guest performance is very different on core #0 and cores #5 or #7. Basically when I use 'cpuset -l 0 VBoxHeadless -s "Name" -v on'

Re: VirtualBox 4.2.4 on FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE problem: VMs behave very different when pinned to different cores

2012-11-23 Thread Alex Chistyakov
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Alex Chistyakov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am back with another problem. As I discovered previously setting a >> CPU affinity explicitly helps to get decent performance on gu

Re: VirtualBox 4.2.4 on FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE problem: VMs behave very different when pinned to different cores

2012-11-23 Thread Alex Chistyakov
le to run a VM on CPU #0 and all cores became equal. > Also, is your kernel DTrace enabled? Yep. Thank you! -- SY, Alex > > on 23/11/2012 17:52 Alex Chistyakov said the following: >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 23,

Re: VirtualBox 4.2.4 on FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE problem: VMs behave very different when pinned to different cores

2012-11-25 Thread Alex Chistyakov
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 24/11/2012 00:17 Alex Chistyakov said the following: >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> >>> I've cc-ed Alexander who is deeply familiar with both the scheduler and the >>

Re: VirtualBox 4.2.4 on FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE problem: VMs behave very different when pinned to different cores

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Chistyakov
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Alex Chistyakov wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 24/11/2012 00:17 Alex Chistyakov said the following: >>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>>> >>>> I've cc-ed

Re: VirtualBox 4.2.4 on FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE problem: VMs behave very different when pinned to different cores

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Chistyakov
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 26/11/2012 09:10 Alex Chistyakov said the following: >> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz (3200.18-MHz K8-class CPU) >> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x206d7 Family = 0x6 Model = 0x2d >> Step