Re: gnome-boxes, high cpu when guest is idle

2018-08-08 Thread Eric Phetteplace
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1613990 Eric From: Cole Robinson Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:11:05 PM To: Community support for Fedora users; Eric Phetteplace Subject: Re: gnome-boxes, high cpu when guest is idle On 08/01/2018 08:56 AM, Eric

Re: gnome-boxes, high cpu when guest is idle

2018-08-07 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Will do, tonight. Eric From: Cole Robinson Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:11:05 PM To: Community support for Fedora users; Eric Phetteplace Subject: Re: gnome-boxes, high cpu when guest is idle On 08/01/2018 08:56 AM, Eric Phetteplace wrote: > Solved &g

Re: gnome-boxes, high cpu when guest is idle

2018-08-07 Thread Cole Robinson
On 08/01/2018 08:56 AM, Eric Phetteplace wrote: Solved I removed and the cpu usage dropped to match the guest. FWIW, to track this down, I created a Fedora server using virt-manager and another with Boxes and reproduced the issue. I compared their ps -lf outputs and tried removing

Re: gnome-boxes, high cpu when guest is idle

2018-08-01 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Solved I removed and the cpu usage dropped to match the guest. FWIW, to track this down, I created a Fedora server using virt-manager and another with Boxes an

Re: gnome-boxes, high cpu when guest is idle

2018-08-01 Thread Eric Phetteplace
making progress. If I start the VM using Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) the cpu is noticeably lower. ppoll seems to be lower, too. Comparing the outputs from ps -lf I see some differences I can test... ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: gnome-boxes, high cpu when guest is idle

2018-07-30 Thread Eric Phetteplace
I've learned two more things: 1. I installed an ubuntu guest OS, and it has the same high host cpu when the guest is idle. 2. using strace, I see this is 97% of the system calls: ppoll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLL

gnome-boxes, high cpu when guest is idle

2018-07-30 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Hello, Using Boxes, I installed a Windows 10 guest. I installed the spice drivers from spice-space.org/download (https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe) and things look good. However, when the guest is idle, cpu is 0-4% the host process is s