From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3Fdi-00087H-V7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:47:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H3Fdh-00086Q-CN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:47:30 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H3Fdh-00086N-7V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:47:29 -0500 Received: from [66.54.152.27] (helo=jive.SoftHome.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H3Fdg-0008QO-O7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:47:29 -0500 Message-ID: <459FE1E1.8020701@softhome.net> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:52:33 +0700 From: Mulyadi Santosa MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Problem with high load average when using -nographic with qemu in background References: <200701061008.09809.phil@supstitches.com> In-Reply-To: <200701061008.09809.phil@supstitches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: phil@supstitches.com Hi Phil > If I start qemu like this (from an interactive shell (tcsh)) > qemu -m 256 -localtime -net nic -net tap -nographic trixbox.img \ > >> &! /tmp/qemulog & >> I never did this before, but maybe you need to take a look on -serial option. Maybe you can use it to redirect the serial output onto FIFO and then read the other end point of this FIFO into a file About the high load, I guess that happens when login prompt appears. It keeps polling for input but never get it and feeding /dev/null just made it "eating" endless null. I hope this hint is useful. regards, Mulyadi