[CentOS-virt] High CPU usage when running a CentOS guest in VirtualBox

2009-07-06 Thread Sagi Bashari
Hi, I am running CentOS 5.3 32bit as a VirtualBox 3.0.0 guest running on Windows XP. The Windows host CPU usage is constantly at 50% although the CentOS guest is completely idle (i.e. 0.00 load average). I know this is a common problem related to the 1000Hz frequency that the CentOS kernel runs

Re: [CentOS-virt] High CPU usage when running a CentOS guest in VirtualBox

2009-07-06 Thread Sagi Bashari
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Akemi Yagiamy...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Sagi Basharis...@boom.org.il wrote: Hi, I am running CentOS 5.3 32bit as a VirtualBox 3.0.0 guest running on Windows XP. The Windows host CPU usage is constantly at 50% although the CentOS

Re: [CentOS-virt] High CPU usage when running a CentOS guest in VirtualBox

2009-07-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Sagi Basharis...@boom.org.il wrote: On my new box where I currently encounter the problem I tried installing the regular 2.6.18-92.1.22 kernel with the divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm parameters like you suggested, and also the old kernel-vm package, and in