I see. Thanks for the response. On 11/10/2014 8:32 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> loaded the Gnome desktop > I think I see part of your problem right there. The Gnome3 desktop is > amazing bloatware. If your RAM is not generously allocated for all the > debris on a typical Gnome desktop, you'll start swapping as well as > sucking CPU for pointless 3D acceleration, especially in a VM. > > You also didn't mention which virtualization technology you used. A VM > that supports paravirtualization, can be far more efficient than a VM > for which a server must do full virtualization. > >> I'm astounded. I have no way of knowing if the problem is also present in RHEL 7. I can say it's not at all present in CentOS 6.5. I have a fair amount of experience with that OS. > Compare apples to apples. Try a much lighter window manager and see if > you have the same performance issue with something like XFCE. If you'd > like to be really retro, you can grab my vtwm building tools at > https://github.com/nkadel/vtwm-5.5.x-srpm and use something older, > more stable, and much lighterweight than any of those that compiles > from the same codebase on either basic OS. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel