Qemu pegging my CPU

[Joe Auty]

Hello,

I'm running FBSD 5.4, installed the kqemu-mod and qemu, everything  
seems to be running fine, except Qemu frequently takes up over 90% of  
my CPU. Just pinging the server or pinging from the host OS outside  
of my network results in loss of packets. Occasionally my CPU is so  
taxed that network requests are stalled or cut out.

I've given 256 MB RAM to my guest OS (Ubuntu). I believe my computer  
has 384 MB of RAM. I've tried running Ubuntu with the default 128 MB  
RAM too.

I can't help thinking that there is something simply wrong here. Qemu  
takes 25% of my CPU just to sit idle. I was under the impression that  
it is supposed to perform much better? As it stands, VMWare 3.x on  
the same machine runs far better. Qemu is currently pretty much  
unusable for me.

Is this pretty much just the way things are? Should I try running  
FBSD 6.1 and running Xen? If so, any guides explaining how to do  
that? Any general advice? I'd like to move away from VMWare since it  
seems flakey, instable, and has a questionable future on FBSD.


Thanks!






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Joe Auty
NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
http://www.netmusician.org
joe at netmusician.org