9.1 AMD64 multitasking efficiency low

[CeDeROM]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Bernhard Fröhlich <decke at freebsd.org> wrote:
> VBox itself also needs some RAM and the emulated Graphics Card which
> can easily be 128M per VM.

This is what I get with CP and one VBox running - memory use is not
that high but the responsiveness is getting low now:

last pid: 20852;  load averages:  0.66,  0.64,  0.49
                                        up 0+03:28:10  17:06:38
100 processes: 1 running, 97 sleeping, 2 zombie
CPU:  3.2% user,  0.0% nice,  1.7% system,  0.3% interrupt, 94.8% idle
Mem: 1072M Active, 312M Inact, 2187M Wired, 91M Cache, 395M Buf, 80M Free
Swap: 6071M Total, 284M Used, 5786M Free, 4% Inuse

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
20846 cd           20  20    0  1489M  1191M uwait   3   1:20 15.48% VirtualBox
 2199 cd            1  29    0   195M 51276K select  1  20:26 10.69% Xorg
 2279 cd            2  22    0   169M 14556K piperd  1   0:47  0.20% Terminal
20724 root          1  20    0 18112K  3060K vnread  0   2:42  0.10% cp
 2500 cd            7  20    0  1106M   199M sbwait  1   3:18  0.00% chrome
 2485 cd           21  20    0   503M 99948K uwait   3   1:51  0.00% chrome



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