[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#585059: virtualbox-ose: Client VM's slow down to a crawl after running for several hours.

[Chris Capon]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 3.2.0-dfsg-1
Severity: important

The server is an Intel I7 processor, 12GB RAM running a 64bit Kernel.  The VM
clients are

1) Windows 7, 64 bit with 4GB RAM configured.
2) Windows 2003 Server, 64 bit with 2GB RAM configured.

These machines start up and run correctly, all devices work properly.  They
also run very quickly for several hours.  However, if the server is left on its
own for a while (say, 30 minutes) with no user activity, the VM's slow down to
a crawl and never recover.  Screen updates are very slow such that you can see
every redraw, processing is very slow (between 1 and 2 orders of magnitude),
disk activity is very low.  The only solution is to shut down the VM's and
restart them - at which point they run very quickly again.  (note: to recover,
the server does not need to be rebooted)

This bug is not new to 3.2, it was present with previous releases of
virtualbox-ose.

In monitoring the server's resources, there is low processor, network and disk
activity, but memory is completely consumed with 50% programs and  50% cache.





-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112            add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-9         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcurl3                7.20.1-2         Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.4-1        GCC support library
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.43-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libpython2.6            2.6.5-1          Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.14-6         Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8n-1         SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.4-1          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvncserver0           0.9.3.dfsg.1-2   API to write one's own vnc server
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.10-2       X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                2:1.1.1-3        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2                 2.7.7.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  libxmu6                 2:1.0.5-1        X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  python                  2.5.4-9          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central          0.6.14+nmu2      register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python2.5               2.5.5-6          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]    7.7.1-2      A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libqt4-opengl               4:4.6.2-4    Qt 4 OpenGL module
ii  libqtcore4                  4:4.6.2-4    Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4                   4:4.6.2-4    Qt 4 GUI module
ii  virtualbox-ose-dkms         3.2.0-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - kern
ii  virtualbox-ose-qt           3.2.0-dfsg-1 x86 virtualization solution - Qt b

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests:
ii  libasound2                    1.0.22-2   shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libpulse0                     0.9.21-1   PulseAudio client libraries
pn  vde2                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  virtualbox-guest-additions    3.2.0-1    guest additions iso image for Virt

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