Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:41:06 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@FreeBSD.org> To: CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.1 AMD64 multitasking efficiency low Message-ID: <CAE-m3X3KvNsb7AbQ_yRXEmyisFZ44Qdp4_xFv7HcJ%2BqjgJ0tQg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjkACs=2RaCb_BaoNT6PM%2B5gkQSGoKP5G4bR_284v_Eoig@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFYkXjkACs=2RaCb_BaoNT6PM%2B5gkQSGoKP5G4bR_284v_Eoig@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:06 PM, CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> wrote: > Hello :-) > > I have found 9.1 to be far more less responsive than 9.0 and previous > releases on my desktop. I have noted this slow down at 9.1-RC. I have > AMD64 4GB RAM i3 CPU and when I simply run Chromium, VBox with Windows > XP 64bit (1GB allocated) and VBox with Ubuntu 64bit (1GB allocated) my > machine gets unresponsive - it does not even respond to ACPI shutdown, > I need to kill it to get working again :-( I did not happen before. > > I have also noted that VBox 4.2.6 is working far more slower and makes > bigger impact on the whole host performance - sometimes I need to wait > some seconds to get the machine response back, this happens especially > at loading stage :-( > > Is there any way to get back the efficiency of my FreeBSD? Maybe I > need to bump some configuration to make it more efficient? :-) > > Any hints appreciated :-) > Tomek 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. -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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