From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 28 12:03:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD3C1065687 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:03:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) Received: from kontrol.kode5.net (kontrol.kode5.net [80.229.5.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5BB8FC19 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kontrol.kode5.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kontrol.kode5.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q8SC3WmI010436 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:03:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) Received: (from jamie@localhost) by kontrol.kode5.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q8SC3WKP010435 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:03:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@kode5.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kontrol.kode5.net: jamie set sender to jamie@kode5.net using -f Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:03:32 +0100 From: Jamie Paul Griffin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120928120332.GF2389@kontrol.kode5.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20120927225642.09f69458@europa> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120927225642.09f69458@europa> x-operating-system: FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE amd64 x-pgp-fingerprint: A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38 x-pgp-key: 1D31DC38 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.6 at kontrol.kode5.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:03:35 -0000 [ Mike Jeays wrote on Thu 27.Sep'12 at 22:56:42 -0400 ] > I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox VM, and notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my CPU temperature about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle machine. (It is an Intel i5 quad four). Is this to be expected? Purefuly a guess, but I would imagine that's KDE for you. From what i've read on forums and such-like, KDE is very memory intensive in terms of using it all up! I tried PC-BSD on my current machine, I found it to be slow because of the Desktop. I've only ever used BSD on this machine and have never experienced that problem when using my preferred minimal window manager. The machine in question is a 2 core Pentium K8 class, with 2G of ram. So not as high spec as yours, but still I went straight back to my standard FreeBSD install and ZFS root FS and much happier with the set-up now.