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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:17:14 +0100
From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk>
To: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
Subject: Re: High load average inside idle FreeBSD guest running on bhyve
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--On 02 October 2014 15:34 +0200 Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> wrote:

> For your bare metal box, could you send the output of vmstat -i ? I had
> the same issue on older boxes and it went away after setting
>
> hint.hpet.0.legacy_route=1
> hint.attimer.0.clock=0
> hint.atrtc.0.clock=0
>
> in /boot/loader.conf (see hpet(4)).

Sure, it's:

"
vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq4: uart0                          724          0
irq17: ehci0 ehci1+               113314          0
irq18: ohci0 ohci1*                    2          0
irq19: ahci0                       12913          0
irq256: hpet0:t0                 2208985         12
irq257: hpet0:t1                  705576          4
irq259: re0                       164805          0
irq260: re1                         5049          0
irq261: re2                         5049          0
Total                            3216417         18
"

Box is an Alix APU (AMD G-T40E based, dual core @ 1Ghz).

-Karl