From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 22:35:16 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AD74FFB; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:35:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomek.cedro@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qe0-f42.google.com (mail-qe0-f42.google.com [209.85.128.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B41AF279; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qe0-f42.google.com with SMTP id 2so2827919qeb.1 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:35:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=LxxYbkquJHfHcACf6wiIHTds3TwK7udXDiPy+dPm9ac=; b=wE/lqtUc4sgDQsnk1/GgTriVc1nvFxN5S78pZRv8zmRTAGswupBYwAzux/i5EWQw73 G2GzTH2DHJHuOSgXIyx3PjrOyvbBIOIy1Phb5MYVqIx/Fr9SbTe6J4pZB1sdXMQCNDqT l3QSXzlhO9opQL6Wt9J2wkqjs26F19sJ+6DSFdeRW+b6OEdWLyTFk6gsxceM+wTXTAAH TyY7dFyyje9YoMsv0/4ImGkWzMDN5Uf64W6UpkCJRMAWeNPxPEy+i+34UvOtioARKNTH oc/rSJTYnJp3XSvs6nhtiU4Gjn7Y35ehTuLo1st60g4X04ZeyjLfDA2Ym4qyqmeA6W4d wOsA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.186.81 with SMTP id cr17mr6057488qab.99.1360622114862; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:35:14 -0800 (PST) Sender: tomek.cedro@gmail.com Received: by 10.49.71.204 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:35:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:35:14 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: haSWLvLlgoYi8LHWnJxbX4vMATs Message-ID: Subject: Re: 9.1 AMD64 multitasking efficiency low From: CeDeROM To: =?UTF-8?Q?Bernhard_Fr=C3=B6hlich?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 22:35:16 -0000 On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:08 PM, CeDeROM wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Bernhard Fr=C3=B6hlich wrote: >> VBox itself also needs some RAM and the emulated Graphics Card which >> can easily be 128M per VM. > > This is what I get with CP and one VBox running - memory use is not > that high but the responsiveness is getting low now: I am now almost sure that these delays are caused by IO and/or MEMORY operations because I can see dramatical decrease in responsivness when: 1. I have constant IO operations provided by copying ~250GB of data from/to external drive. Copying takes really lots of time and slows down the whole system noticably. 2. When any bigger application starts whole system slows down - i.e. my xorg/xfce4 keeps me waiting some seconds for action, still i can hear fluent mp3 stream behind. After application is loaded it works pretty fine until it starts operating on a data or unloads. When VBox starts the vmachine I get terrible glitches, then when everything is loaded system and vmachine works fine until it needs to load something that again slows down the whole system, then when I want to shut down the machine it gets unresponsive. 3. When the swap starts working things also gets really bad. I can work on VESA xorg driver, I can have no multimedia drivers, but the system performance is really important factor for me and working like this is really unpleasant on a pretty modern machine :-( I dont want to even think to switch to Ubuntu :-P Any hints on how to fix this situation are highly welcome :-) --=20 CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info