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Re: Different cpu usage between Fedora and SL6 guests
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Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]>
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Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:46:19 -0600
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On 07/17/2012 04:17 PM, zxq9 wrote:
> On 07/18/2012 06:55 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> While staring at top on my kvm server waiting for it to crash, I noticed
>> that my idle Fedora kvm guests appear to be consuming between 8-12% cpu
>> while my idle SL6 guests appear to be consuming between 0.3-2% cpu as
>> shown in the qemu-kvm processes in top.
>>
>> Does anyone have any insight as to why this would be the case?
>
> That depends heavily on what version of Fedora they are (particularly Rawhide
> instances), and what services they are running.

Well, I have a Fedora 17 instance running now with nothing but kernel 
processes and the qemu-kvm process still shows using 7-8% cpu.

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Orion Poplawski
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