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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:06:27 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com>
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Subject: Re: PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Mike Jeays wrote:

> 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?

It may help to add

kern.hz="100"

to /boot/loader.conf.