Re: [gentoo-user] vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-19 Thread J. Roeleveld 
On November 20, 2016 6:21:40 AM GMT+01:00, Alan McKinnon 
 wrote:
>On 20/11/2016 02:59, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs.  I
>> wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of gentoo with 3GB or ram.
>> 
>> Top's cpu usage is fluxuating between 45% and 99% during this compile
>> 
>> Portage pulling 99% by itself at times.
>> 
>> I thought 3GB was a bit high for a vm compared to what I've given
>debian
>> vms... can anyone give some guidance about how much ram to allow a
>> gentoo vm in Vbox?
>> 
>> I'm on a windows 10 host with 32 GB ram but running a number of vms.
>> 
>> 
>
>Depends on what you are compiling. webkitgtk is a brute, so is
>thunderbird, libreoffice and other usual culprits. Those sorts of build
>systems need as much ram as you can spare whereas the rest of the time
>vm itself needs as much as it needs to do whatever it is you want it to
>do.
>
>What hypervisor are you using, and can you use memory ballooning?

MS Windows desktop OSes are not the best platforms to run multiple VMs on.

Also, overcommitting CPUs has a bad influence on performance, especially if the 
host wants to use all cores as well.

I run VMs regularly and am not surprised at this.

I always use Linux as the host as the scheduler there works better for this 
kind of usage.

--
Joost
-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [gentoo-user] vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-19 Thread Alan McKinnon 
On 20/11/2016 02:59, Harry Putnam wrote:
> An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs.  I
> wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of gentoo with 3GB or ram.
> 
> Top's cpu usage is fluxuating between 45% and 99% during this compile
> 
> Portage pulling 99% by itself at times.
> 
> I thought 3GB was a bit high for a vm compared to what I've given debian
> vms... can anyone give some guidance about how much ram to allow a
> gentoo vm in Vbox?
> 
> I'm on a windows 10 host with 32 GB ram but running a number of vms.
> 
> 

Depends on what you are compiling. webkitgtk is a brute, so is
thunderbird, libreoffice and other usual culprits. Those sorts of build
systems need as much ram as you can spare whereas the rest of the time
vm itself needs as much as it needs to do whatever it is you want it to do.

What hypervisor are you using, and can you use memory ballooning?

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-19 Thread Harry Putnam 
An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs.  I
wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of gentoo with 3GB or ram.

Top's cpu usage is fluxuating between 45% and 99% during this compile

Portage pulling 99% by itself at times.

I thought 3GB was a bit high for a vm compared to what I've given debian
vms... can anyone give some guidance about how much ram to allow a
gentoo vm in Vbox?

I'm on a windows 10 host with 32 GB ram but running a number of vms.