[CentOS-virt] [CentOS] qemu-kvm high cpu usage with idle windows guest
Zoltan Frombach
zoltan at frombach.com
Sun Apr 7 17:41:28 UTC 2013
Yeah, I would not compile libvirt and qemu-kvm from source either.
What about this:
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/5770-Windows-guest-high-context-switch-rate-when-idle?s=65028c4f45a28ea2c09a3f311b600e7d&p=32972#post32972
Did you try this? Doesn't help?
Zoltan
On 4/7/2013 5:45 PM, Micky wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Zoltan Frombach <zoltan at frombach.com> wrote:
>> Check out these threads they may help you solve your issue with Windows VMs:
> Well I did. Upstream provides rpms till version 0.12.1.x. Even the
> RHEV srpm (the one I am using) has the same version. And I don't want
> to compile both libvirt and qemu-kvm from source since it is the
> production machine.
>
>> http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/5770-Windows-guest-high-context-switch-rate-when-idle
>>
>> http://serverfault.com/questions/146922/why-is-idle-windows-vm-using-so-much-cpu
>
>> On 4/7/2013 5:18 PM, Banyan He wrote:
>>> Maybe you can print out what it is doing, then try to figure out if they
>>> are doing good. My linux works good, never tried windows.
>>>
> Did. Nothing abnormal.
> A quick perf shows this:
>
> # ........ ........ ..................
> ..............................................
> #
> 4.96% qemu-kvm [kvm] [k] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
> 4.83% qemu-kvm [kvm_intel] [k] vmx_vcpu_run
> 4.47% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_busiest_group
> 3.23% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _spin_lock
> 3.10% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe
> 1.24% qemu-kvm [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _spin_lock_irq
> 1.22% qemu-kvm [kvm] [k] paging64_walk_addr
> 1.21% qemu-kvm [kvm] [k] x86_decode_insn
> 1.21% qemu-kvm [kvm_intel] [k] vmcs_writel
>
>>> Banyan He
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