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

[Vincent Bernat]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:01:36 +0200, Frank Mehnert <frank at innotek.de> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks Frank, this works fine with this option. Since I am using
VirtualBox on a workstation, using this option is not a problem
for me.