Re: bhyve on AMD, linux and high load

2014-05-22 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
On 22-5-2014 21:29, Nils Beyer wrote: > I suppose you start your bhyved Linux instances using the "-A" switch (ACPI > tables), right? If you feel interested, you can try to start them without the > "-A" switch. For me, the boot process is now stucked at "Calibrating delay > loop". As far as I under

Re: bhyve on AMD, linux and high load

2014-05-22 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
On 22-5-2014 21:29, Nils Beyer wrote: > Hi, > > Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >> I've just completed merging and patching with Anish patches... >> ONce that seems to run for my freebsd vm's, I'll start merging my >> patches. And hope that it still works. > > Sounds good. I've tried some Linux versio

Re: bhyve on AMD, linux and high load

2014-05-22 Thread Nils Beyer
Hi, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > I've just completed merging and patching with Anish patches... > ONce that seems to run for my freebsd vm's, I'll start merging my > patches. And hope that it still works. Sounds good. I've tried some Linux versions ranging from 2.6.32, 3.10.x, 3.11.10 to 3.12.8 u

Re: bhyve on AMD, linux and high load

2014-05-22 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
On 2014-05-22 18:24, Nils Beyer wrote: Hi Willem, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: [...] With the new kernel, that is no longer the case. On a idle vm the CPU load is like 6-7% At the moment I'm running: linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic_3.13.0-24.46_amd64 Now, that looks promising. Is that with

Re: bhyve on AMD, linux and high load

2014-05-22 Thread Nils Beyer
Hi Willem, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > [...] > With the new kernel, that is no longer the case. On a idle vm the CPU > load is like 6-7% > > At the moment I'm running: > linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic_3.13.0-24.46_amd64 Now, that looks promising. Is that with or without your own bhyve-/SVM-

bhyve on AMD, linux and high load

2014-05-22 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Hoi, Just a point on the timeline I think somebody asked why his CPU load was so high on AMD running linux. I've completed compiling a "fresh" linux-kernel on my Ubuntu 14.04 system, installed and rebooted it. And where previously a Linux-kernel would drain the CPUs it got assigned to th