[ Comments below, in line ] On Friday 06 March 2009 at 5:01 pm, Brian J. Murrell penned about "Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native"
> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 16:50 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > > > Have you `strace' the VirtualBox process? > > Not yet. My experience with strace lately is that you can't detach > it in many instances without hanging up the strace and process being > straced. Something sounds funky on your machine because I've never had the above happen. Albeit I don't use `strace' often. But based on what you've written below, is the problem with your Guest O/S running some crazy bits? > In any case, my winxp guest is making a liar out of me now. Using > the lame Task Manager->Processes it's showing XP using 100% CPU. > But taskmmg.exe is one of the biggest CPU users. The other is > services,exe (WTF that is). I'm attaching my task manager output. > There's a better system monitoring tool than taskmgr.exec but I'm > damned if I can remember what it is. I've found `task manager' to be fairly reliable. Especially if you look at the systray icon for it, if your CPU is 100%, it'll be a solid bright green in the `systray' Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US)
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