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Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> I wrote: 
> 
>> There seems to be an issue with guest Windows 98 SE on qemu 0.8.1 and kqemu
>> 1.3.0pre7, on a Linux host.
>>
>> Windows 98 SE is visibly very slow; and when qemu is run with -no-kqemu, it
>> is actually faster.
> 
> I forgot to mention that the CPU use as per "top" is constantly at 100%, 
> almost all of it by qemu, with over 60% in "system"; 
> 
> With guest NT4 (which is fast) the CPU use is near zero when the NT system is 
> idle.
> 
Do you have the idle driver loaded in win98 as per the qemu docs?
Otherwise it will use 100% cpu, where as NT based systems know how to hlt the processor


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