From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 16:07:06 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB760FF6 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:07:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com (mail-ob0-f178.google.com [209.85.214.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74107B46 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:07:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id wd20so6256188obb.9 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:07:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bluelife.at; s=google; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tmCi2XzsjC9C1jHHi7+Qmr8/NWsRu9UcO0EC6r3lrK4=; b=ehMnu0Ow6IJk+DM3cmiYS5IIHNewGiDT1pBz5NXTlcAh4icbjGVPeMF2/DVdjRkv/V ZUPfkB3Z3KlciMY3P9CeBjOrmkl0KmSRAhMEoDf/GN7NhOTSSaD8Ucx0t1ciherR25NT F7k2MKqwh7U615BHSwtu4JDoGG/hXRCOdvK9Q= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=tmCi2XzsjC9C1jHHi7+Qmr8/NWsRu9UcO0EC6r3lrK4=; b=UF4ArAZbZO/ihqDXR/7mx3P3IB2/dxWbQOw93lZfBOK68w4qW92v+n8Is+HgR13VKi +3codveiKHAsRv5xsPadv5zoEgl7BCb0TQRcP21d9qk3tiBWttzZjLPUJRDBw4mHXUC0 4W6eFpo28OAxa90Zg0dxD3TfRksTtP8rvQOojQ/fr5i4RY90Cs30mA/LJuyhQIukyxEt drSCxazgY59iMCgvnal/CaQbfURaVmXx18gWfNFZ+DxCTNQbI1BaVg2rZoWNf38mzWGA t++MUKJ3niUFUVKyxwyTFkwMK4XmvbarpUsNOa5D3+OBxzrWS6FaGVbA/gPcfaFmIEzf zrKg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.27.161 with SMTP id u1mr10813292oeg.1.1360598438280; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:00:38 -0800 (PST) Sender: decke@bluelife.at Received: by 10.76.22.134 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:00:38 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [80.123.233.199] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:00:38 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7BPxuA7d9ZVch7x97aTKwJVRlTg Message-ID: Subject: Re: 9.1 AMD64 multitasking efficiency low From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= To: CeDeROM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnyM79sK3CMu6t/cwlg0o1LgTgxISLFWXZXIMu+1oPbHpirdniCgqb1uvOj0JlvL5Lv0aHo Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:07:06 -0000 On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:48 PM, CeDeROM wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich = wrote: >> You can try to switch to emulators/virtualbox-ose-legacy which is >> VirtualBox 4.1.x >> just to rule out that this is a vbox regression. Just be sure to power >> down the VMs >> first. >> It would be interesting to watch if the machine starts to swap when that= is all >> running. > > Hello Bernhard, thank you for your hints, I can try with VBox 4.1, but > first I will try to get rid of the Ext2 from my system. On another > machine I have switched to UFS2 and the speed increased noticably. I > will let you know when I transfer all of those GB of data :-) > > Yes it looks like the cause of the hangup is the swap rush/deadlock > but I could not verify it as the machine was unresponsive. Still both > machines use 1GB of RAM per VM so still 2GB should be free. With other > applications running and the OS taking 1GB itself (what I have seen on > some other posts) this may happen :-( VBox itself also needs some RAM and the emulated Graphics Card which can easily be 128M per VM. --=20 Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/