Hi,

it happens with 5.2 as well.

Regards
Ingo

Am 24.10.2017 um 12:55 schrieb Ingo Strüwing:
> Hi,
> 
> more observations about this topic.
> 
> I reduced the CPU count in the guest to the recommended maximum of one
> CPU per host core. This made the failure pretty rare, but then it
> happened again one day.
> 
> I have the problem from <= 5.1.24 up to 5.1.30.
> 
> Yesterday I noticed by chance, that the VM recovered from the perceived
> "CPU loss" after a longer period of low load.
> 
> Regards
> Ingo
> 
> Am 01.08.2017 um 16:58 schrieb Ingo Strüwing:
>> Hi,
>>
>> currently, I'm on VirtualBox 5.1.26, but I watched this with some
>> earlier versions too (at least with 5.1.24).
>>
>> Host is Kubuntu 17.04 64 bit, guest is Kubuntu 16.04 64 bit.
>>
>> Host processor is Intel Core i7-7700K (4 cores, 8 Hyper Threads).
>>
>> Against the recommendation, I'm using 8 CPUs in the VM. I'm doing a lot
>> of parallel compilation and testing. I found, that using 8 gives me more
>> performance than the recommended 4. The host does little more than
>> running this single VM.
>>
>> Usually I see the total processor load in VM and host at par.
>>
>> Sometimes on extreme load on the VM, it happens, that the VM keeps being
>> loaded near 100%, but the host load drops to 30% or 24%. This gives me
>> the impression, that just 2 or 4 hyper threads are being used by the VM.
>>
>> Once run into this, the VM does not recover from it. I have to reboot
>> the VM.
>>
>> Any idea, how to get around this without a reboot?
>>
>> Regards
>> Ingo
>>
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