high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-03 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hello. I noticed that window7, unlike windowsXP as I played with previously, poses quite high load on host when idle. On my machine, host cpu usage is about 25% when one single-cpu win7 guest is running with "-usbdevice tablet" option. Here's a typical kvm_stats when such a guest is idling: efe

Re: high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-10 Thread Jes Sorensen
On 09/03/10 14:21, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Hello. > > I noticed that window7, unlike windowsXP as I played with > previously, poses quite high load on host when idle. On > my machine, host cpu usage is about 25% when one single-cpu > win7 guest is running with "-usbdevice tablet" option. > Here'

Re: high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-10 Thread Michael Tokarev
10.09.2010 15:47, Jes Sorensen wrote: > On 09/03/10 14:21, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I noticed that window7, unlike windowsXP as I played with >> previously, poses quite high load on host when idle. On >> my machine, host cpu usage is about 25% when one single-cpu >> win7 guest is run

Re: high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-10 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/03/2010 03:21 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Hello. I noticed that window7, unlike windowsXP as I played with previously, poses quite high load on host when idle. On my machine, host cpu usage is about 25% when one single-cpu win7 guest is running with "-usbdevice tablet" option. Here's a ty

Re: high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-10 Thread Michael Tokarev
10.09.2010 16:19, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 09/03/2010 03:21 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I noticed that window7, unlike windowsXP as I played with >> previously, poses quite high load on host when idle. On >> my machine, host cpu usage is about 25% when one single-cpu >> win7 guest is

Re: high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-10 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/10/2010 03:44 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: 10.09.2010 16:19, Avi Kivity wrote: On 09/03/2010 03:21 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Hello. I noticed that window7, unlike windowsXP as I played with previously, poses quite high load on host when idle. On my machine, host cpu usage is about 25%

Re: high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-10 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/10/2010 05:47 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: 10.09.2010 16:50, Avi Kivity wrote: [] During this shot, host CPU was about 30..35% in use - higher than usual 25%, but I guess it's due to perfmon. Please build qemu with --disable-strip and use 'perf' to profile it. Done, I tried several differ

Re: high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-10 Thread Michael Tokarev
10.09.2010 18:56, Avi Kivity пишет: > On 09/10/2010 05:47 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> 10.09.2010 16:50, Avi Kivity wrote: >> [] During this shot, host CPU was about 30..35% in use - higher than usual 25%, but I guess it's due to perfmon. >>> Please build qemu with --disable-strip and u

Re: high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-10 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/10/2010 06:03 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Strange. Can you also post a few lines of 'vmstat 1'? Maybe we'll see a lot of context switches in there. Not that many. Still running the same w7 guest, still ~25..27% CPU usage reported by top for the kvm process, here's `vmstat 5' after a w

Re: high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-14 Thread Michael Tokarev
14.09.2010 12:26, Brad Campbell wrote: [] > Just a data point. An idle XP guest for me without -usb sees the host > running at about 8,000 context switches a second. With the guest using > -usb -usbdevice tablet, the host runs at between 15,000 - 18,000 context > switches a second. Yes, I observed

Re: high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-14 Thread Brad Campbell
On 14/09/10 16:33, Michael Tokarev wrote: 14.09.2010 12:26, Brad Campbell wrote: [] Just a data point. An idle XP guest for me without -usb sees the host running at about 8,000 context switches a second. With the guest using -usb -usbdevice tablet, the host runs at between 15,000 - 18,000 contex

Re: high load with win7 & usb tablet

2010-09-14 Thread Brad Campbell
On 11/09/10 00:03, Avi Kivity wrote: On 09/10/2010 06:03 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Strange. Can you also post a few lines of 'vmstat 1'? Maybe we'll see a lot of context switches in there. Not that many. Still running the same w7 guest, still ~25..27% CPU usage reported by top for the kvm p