Re: FreeBSD/i386 guests using excessive host CPU

2013-01-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
[sorry for the delay] On 2012-Dec-12 19:15:34 +, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:43:36 +1100, Peter Jeremy said: >> My VPS provider will not offer 32-bit FreeBSD guests because they use >> excessive (ESXi) host CPU time. I have done some experiments using >> VirtualBox on

Re: FreeBSD/i386 guests using excessive host CPU

2012-12-12 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:43:36 +1100, Peter Jeremy said: > > [Please copy me in any replies] > > My VPS provider will not offer 32-bit FreeBSD guests because they use > excessive (ESXi) host CPU time. I have done some experiments using > VirtualBox on my FreeBSD/amd64 8-stable host and see t

FreeBSD/i386 guests using excessive host CPU

2012-12-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
[Please copy me in any replies] My VPS provider will not offer 32-bit FreeBSD guests because they use excessive (ESXi) host CPU time. I have done some experiments using VirtualBox on my FreeBSD/amd64 8-stable host and see the same. An idle 32-bit FreeBSD 9 or 10 guest uses very roughly 25% more