From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 14 18:19:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7689D106566B for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:19:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhellenthal@dataix.net) Received: from mail-gh0-f182.google.com (mail-gh0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7198FC0C for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbz22 with SMTP id z22so5009105ghb.13 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:19:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dataix.net; s=rsa; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=epLUvPaC8vYvkFPL3AWkcwDkscz7ayq8J36krELSuss=; b=g2RJe61DCBJIe+BeNhI4kEo2GwXZBCEsMgYeMzwB+8TIV7mbyeywePgyQNv6GTcZfQ sOOkXhKMYNsVkd+M4cPKwaMNq4w6wt8C/f4hDK3k3aPGfsVfCTbsr/GypnO2iBklf5mK cXH8Mur2nt0EA3HGZOP/lGm/mP37ad/oehc0w= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:x-gm-message-state; bh=epLUvPaC8vYvkFPL3AWkcwDkscz7ayq8J36krELSuss=; b=QA6g8rPL3b/zQ1gPhzrPTauJcJ0JWCHigPLMRNK9AirMCMH/oIhndqVuLyXPQrBVml s3v5pNaaAeRVDA6kNGnGnPEczgYIjRChSIYrNppqIFKYgRSZ9/Vl41pBUrbM8SHF/jhv Pr/YNjROq3El3/2KZhVpHGqH/ttx2vd8DH1jkR0LevZu8IhQB2uop0N6CW9eVF1zh30R IZVQVM6ZcoVNTmA+d3xYM2NhZvs7+w49ugjqdBECRfCfN5pMEG7/OLwjDy1trUo2xxmi RSDDclE3kRLt8W4B/Rh+Jz6t16RlsWlf3wLdJK6N+iLXcvcOc8uVZtns9z+Pf2KDixyA RbQw== Received: by 10.50.173.5 with SMTP id bg5mr1876717igc.35.1342289985109; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DataIX.net (adsl-99-109-124-107.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net. [99.109.124.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k6sm9457494igw.14.2012.07.14.11.19.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DataIX.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by DataIX.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q6EIJfWf067103 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:19:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhellenthal@DataIX.net) Received: (from jh@localhost) by DataIX.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q6EIJd8N067102; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:19:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhellenthal@DataIX.net) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:19:39 -0400 From: Jason Hellenthal To: Mike Meyer Message-ID: <20120714181939.GA34209@DataIX.net> References: <20120714061141.473cc8ee@bhuda.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120714061141.473cc8ee@bhuda.mired.org> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkgBrlvCnuz8l8CXzCL02eKqM87RvwE9TODysmYYwmsczHWmnPei2GfsC7C4tlF87kPHp1Z Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:19:46 -0000 On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 06:11:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core > SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. > > Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest > performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive. Linux guests > see lots of "CPU Locked" errors. Try booting the linux VBox with HZ=100. This should greatly improve your performance. > > Googling turns up lots of problems with VBox on SandyBridge: Mac's > running on 64 bit kernels have this problem - running on 32 bit > kernels helps. Turning off Intel's SpeedStep has been reported to > help. Turning off VT-X in the guest - if it's a 32-bit guest - > helps. The last one is the only one that actually helped me. > > I was wondering if anyone here had run into and solved similar > problems? Or if they were running a similar system, and didn't run > into that problem? Especially anyone running 9.0 instead of 8.X! > > > > Thanks, > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/ > Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. > > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- - (2^(N-1))