Virtualbox consuming wcpu

[Jesse Smith]

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Subject: freebsd-ports Digest, Vol 372, Issue 3
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:30:02 +0000 (UTC)

I recently upgraded to the new port version of virtualbox - 3.2.6.
After 
completing the upgrade, I'm seeing a massive amount of wcpu consumption
(145%) 
with virtualbox when I use the vm to rdp to a different windows box.  As
long 
as I'm not using rdp, it works fine.  When I first start the rdp, wcpu
is fine, 
but it increases over time (20-30 minutes) until it's consuming cpu to
the 
point where the host becomes very sluggish.

Has anyone else experienced this?






I have run into this problem too. Not sure what the cause is, but it
does get out of hand very quickly on my machine. The only work-around
I've found is to use "cpulimit" to throttle back the VirtualBox process.
The side effect of this, of course, is everything in the VM runs very
slowly. But it's the only thing I've found to avoid cooking my laptop.