2010-02-19

VirtualBox lot of CPU while linux idle

At least steady 20% cpu use on Os-X virtualbox 3.1.4 despite linux-virtual image installed in ubuntu 9.10. My wife complains about the sound from my computers fans.

It is difficult to get fast information about what is the problem. I guess from this thread it has to do with the Linux kernel.
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12903&start=0&sid=51ff714854b31fa9a6bd907415789f1a

henrik@hexubuvmw:~/hack/emacs$ grep CONFIG_HZ /boot/config-2.6.31-19-generic-pae
# CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set
CONFIG_HZ_250=y
# CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set
# CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set
CONFIG_HZ=250
henrik@hexubuvmw:~/hack/emacs$ grep TICKLESS /boot/config-2.6.31-19-generic-pae
henrik@hexubuvmw:~/hack/emacs$

I think I need to recompile the kernel:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile

Now it looked like a reasonably easy thing, but it didn't work for me, I never got the promised .deb file of the new kernel. I like Linux but don't really like to mess with Linux problems, so I give up fast as usual. It try Parallels instead for the first time.

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