[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#440904: When virtualbox is running, ksoftirqd takes 20% proc

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi Vincent,

On Monday 10 September 2007, you wrote:
> I am using vanilla Debian kernel. I have upgraded to the latest
> in Sid and still have the problem. I attach the config file to
> this message.
>
> Here is the top of dmesg:
>
> Linux version 2.6.22-2-686-bigmem (Debian
> 2.6.22-4) (waldi at debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3
> 20070812 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-15)) #1 SMP Fri Aug 31
> 01:40:59 UTC 2007
>
> I attach also the result of lshw to provide better insight of
> hardware.

thank you for the additional information. Please could you add

  nohz=off

to your kernel command line and try if the problem is probably gone?
There is a problem with CONFIG_NO_HZ-enabled Linux kernels we are
trying to fix.

Kind regards,

Frank
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