Re: 9.1 AMD64 multitasking efficiency low

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:48 PM, CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich <decke@freebsd.org> =
wrote:
>> You can try to switch to emulators/virtualbox-ose-legacy which is
>> VirtualBox 4.1.x
>> just to rule out that this is a vbox regression. Just be sure to power
>> down the VMs
>> first.
>> It would be interesting to watch if the machine starts to swap when that=
 is all
>> running.
>
> Hello Bernhard, thank you for your hints, I can try with VBox 4.1, but
> first I will try to get rid of the Ext2 from my system. On another
> machine I have switched to UFS2 and the speed increased noticably. I
> will let you know when I transfer all of those GB of data :-)
>
> Yes it looks like the cause of the hangup is the swap rush/deadlock
> but I could not verify it as the machine was unresponsive. Still both
> machines use 1GB of RAM per VM so still 2GB should be free. With other
> applications running and the OS taking 1GB itself (what I have seen on
> some other posts) this may happen :-(

VBox itself also needs some RAM and the emulated Graphics Card which
can easily be 128M per VM.

-- =

Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/
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