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. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane [log in to unmask] Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com