From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 16:00:39 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@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 47A9CBFB for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:00:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from mail-ob0-f173.google.com (mail-ob0-f173.google.com [209.85.214.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A1AAE6 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f173.google.com with SMTP id dn14so6243293obc.18 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:00:38 -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=MygJ0hk6K5hZ3/dmFAFyqHlucVZoaMB4E+FUCs1+gQoUvQVkmbkGIra+JXzN2z36XL V+W3lcuuP7AlyB8BWo7SW+NBz7IC3xtxFM/7vnURp2v7W7yTTIdMKhajWRwi+oI8cxzh yYgx63ENRD35ivseL0HX7FVLsCyIc+xDSY7lCGnJTGXEJsMn9z+AVs4nr1yAAGqakZY6 1v6sx/LyjnoJz2c2kpdzhAaT5XJ9d3eZX5MBg55Xd4rcWW9v1rU7peRIvc09RdAHpaIC 3rPDkUhSWTrWHDX/WS8IyczBgOBuwRtrzqtPCR2XQZiefdzTB1fIWZmfa5NtpqJj+Koa 52sQ== 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: ALoCoQmC+66x12qsdSbuukSSyUu5VxK7y2YBRHacQOHgjbUhKRmcRun5oYx0+BOI5JZDqCp6AQ2N Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:00:39 -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/