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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:05:55 +0100
From: "Christian MICHON" <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] High CPU Usage with Linux 2.6.24 and Windows XP
	Guest (but not with 2.6.23)
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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Steve Fosdick
<lists@pelvoux.nildram.co.uk> wrote:
>  The hardware is an AMD64 processor and 1GB RAM.
>
>  The problem with 2.6.24 seems only to occur with kqemu and also appears in dependant of whether dynamic ticks is enabled.  A couple of timings should illustrate the difference.
>
>  From VM start to login prompt: no kqemu=2m0s, 2.6.23=1m2s, 2.6.24=1m27s.
>  From login to last systray icon: no kqemu=6m25s, 2.6.23=1m47s, 2.6.24=4m46s
>
>  Does anyone have any insight as to what may be happening or what tools I could use to gather enough information to help you guys diagnose the problem?
>

did you compile both kernels yourself, with similar/compatible
config/compilers ?

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