[OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana on KVM problem

[Jörg Stephan]

Hi again,

i talked back to my serviceprovider, we changed the cpu seeting to 2
sockets with one core and athlon emulation instead of the Qemu64 CPU
emulation, so i have the two cores now.

Regards


Am Dienstag, den 27.03.2012, 16:07 +0200 schrieb Jörg Stephan:
> Hi there,
> 
> i run openindiana as a test environment on an linux kvm server. My
> serviceprovider informed me that my cpu uses 100% all over the time. So
> i noticed that
> 
> root at vs3:~# dmesg | grep cpu
> Mar 27 12:57:38 vs3 unix: [ID 223955 kern.info] x86_feature: cpuid
> Mar 27 12:57:43 vs3 unix: [ID 950921 kern.info] cpu0: x86 (chipid 0x0
> GenuineIntel 623 family 6 model 2 step 3 clock 2500 MHz)
> Mar 27 12:57:43 vs3 unix: [ID 950921 kern.info] cpu0: QEMU Virtual CPU
> version 1.0.50
> Mar 27 12:57:43 vs3 unix: [ID 608849 kern.notice] NOTICE: System
> detected 2 cpus, but only 1 cpu(s) were enabled during boot.
> Mar 27 12:57:43 vs3 unix: [ID 458440 kern.notice] NOTICE: Use
> "boot-ncpus" parameter to enable more CPU(s). See eeprom(1M).
> 
> Trying to enable the second cpu via
> 
> eeprom boot-ncpus=2 
> 
> does not succeed.
> 
> root at vs3:~# psrinfo -vp
> The physical processor has 1 virtual processor (0)
>   x86 (GenuineIntel 623 family 6 model 2 step 3 clock 2500 MHz)
>         QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0.50
> 
> I know that is basically a problem on KVM side, but maybe some one has
> an idea to solve it. In addition to that there is now reason which
> causes the kvm to tell the machine uses 100% cpu, cause it idles 82%
> most of the time.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jörg
> 
> 
> 
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