Hi Perry, On 04.06.2013 14:23, Perry Halbert wrote: > Good day Klaus, > > Strange indeed. As I said I didn't notice this before but can't promise > exactly when It started. I don't usually need to trace why excessive > idle CPU ticks are present. I did check the released (4.2.12) and it > does not produce this behavior. > > I do have backups of my builds and can if needed to see where it > started. (at least to the middle of March) > > Question if I may, what is the purpose of the %U in the startup command > (VirtualBox %U)
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html I wonder if %U is really what we want, or if we should have %F there :) Klaus > Perry > > > On 06/04/2013 04:06 AM, Klaus Espenlaub wrote: >> Hi Perry, >> >> On 03.06.2013 23:10, Perry Halbert wrote: >>> More research on this shows that using VBoxHeadless -s <guest> or shift >>> start from the main manager does not produce the zombies. >>> >>> Only normal starting from the main manager or shortcut does. >> Very very strange, I'm not aware of any intentional code changes in this >> area for approx. a year, and actually I have no idea why VBoxHeadless >> processes would consistently behave differently. The distinction should >> be "VM started through the API" (i.e. anything in the GUI, and >> VBoxManage startvm) or "VM started directly" (i.e. >> VirtualBox/VBoxHeadless/VBoxSDL --startvm foo). In the latter case >> VBoxSVC is not the parent and thus isn't responsible for waiting for the >> process exit result. >> >> I can reproduce, so will investigate what's causing this behavior change. >> >> Thanks for letting us know... >> >> Klaus >> >>> On 06/01/2013 11:56 AM, Perry Halbert wrote: >>>> Strange behavior the last few weeks. >>>> >>>> Stopping ( even saved state ) a guest leaves a zombie process on the >>>> host. >>>> Each new start and it uses a new pid and the zombie is still there. >>>> Stop all guests and the main manager and all processes including the >>>> zombie processes finally clear. >>>> >>>> Host = Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guest = any. >>>> >>>> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND >>>> perry 9538 6.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:36 0:34 >>>> [VirtualBox] <defunct> >>>> perry 9934 4.3 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:22 >>>> [VirtualBox] <defunct> >>>> >>>> Normally I would not have seen this but the processor was doing work >>>> when it should have been idle. I have never seen a zombie process >>>> using CPU ticks before. Wait long enough and the %CPU will finally >>>> get to zero but it seems to take like 20 to 30 minutes to do so. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
