From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 15:41:14 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BF423F for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:41:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from mail-ob0-f176.google.com (mail-ob0-f176.google.com [209.85.214.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340159BC for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:41:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f176.google.com with SMTP id v19so6149832obq.35 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:41:07 -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; bh=e3sxPJ7TarAraPGkipNqm82dbXGG85xr1XaH3C+yq34=; b=Hr4wHoIucqZRF6+uqZBVWe21CKPvLtEkiN17SLZ70LuHoTq8DHE0jWNkETohWL8wqF xxU7tfSsXpIRBVjRjOQJnzGudOP6WQwlWG22HKsS30GmBKcrA4kmtG/jyTJhIVLyYsWZ igNDhKc4GQ+K7ylCfzYGCxwcvBseoblbwqg8E= 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:x-gm-message-state; bh=e3sxPJ7TarAraPGkipNqm82dbXGG85xr1XaH3C+yq34=; b=Gwxf86N+IRKk8vPbbXl9oNzugs+TF4ylUSsKne0PhjWq5dkdUy9yDONZb8weBeLFEu FVjyr1AIfB9eeyPmRvJjcKiMKGsVGv87/YogfV4pHZP7xmMlb1gaO3HEi+AW1C2n96SC t+JC9XXUnA8I+1J7k3ME4mQhgkFsg4CaUAPo69QVsNIqb0i0HSEra0dUHO5DZturKv1Q GlYGLrAlghpwB5yF8rqk8B7EQrM9yfJVxgpvJtp3p/Xk+d8BLx4G3L2lc7M4BpBwQtNy wGkl8r9z6crX+XwQ4JPDa7lBc1Uq0e84Qhs7+hPXAAnoo3+zriGPOVEFAHlZcCBl0fhE Ok5g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.7.129 with SMTP id j1mr10793883oea.54.1360597266995; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:41:06 -0800 (PST) Sender: decke@bluelife.at Received: by 10.76.22.134 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:41:06 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [80.123.233.199] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:41:06 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Jo3fl_VkiIJvYPJzHhAJmWxaSYY 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 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmBAKNa7SkjZVoWNzoHx2xqlcn4KEO21lBTwk3eePam8f/WH/uEyZ5fH48szv7mFQcGUoLW Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:41:14 -0000 On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:06 PM, CeDeROM 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/