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I am running Centos 7 in Virtualbox 4.3.14. The VM is configured with
- 2 CPUs
- 4 GB RAM
- 3.10.0-123.4.4.el7.x86_64 kernel
The host machine is running
- Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-bit
- Intel i7-4790 CPU, Hyper-Threading enabled
- 16 GB RAM
Yet, when I start up this VM, it bring my entire system almost to a halt, including my host OS. In Process Explorer of System Internal, I can see all my cores are maxed out by VirtualBox. On my VM using top, the load average is about 2 when the system "idles".
- I have tried the dummy VM trick as per http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2009/07/07/virtualbox-high-cpu-usage-problem-solved.html
- I have tried the divider trick as per https://community.oracle.com/message/9307831
- I have tried disabling "Nested-Paging" as per ... (cannot add more links with my rep)
Previously I used to run a similar configuration using only a laptop with 6 GB of RAM without any problems.
What else can I try to make this VM usable?
Jasper Citi
Posted 2014-08-05T14:44:48.343
Reputation: 180
Could you show what you see when you run top on your guest? – Marcelo – 2014-08-05T14:52:12.670
I cannot. I need more "rep".On the i7 server get a load average of 15.37 (top processes are java processes that take 12.5% - 40.6% each). I copied the same VM to an i5 laptop with only 8 GB RAM and got a load average of 2.28 (top processes are the same java processes that take 17.3% - 17.6% each). – Jasper Citi – 2014-08-05T15:57:42.193
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_average#Unix-style_load_calculation – a CVn – 2014-08-06T07:52:25.913