On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:25:27PM -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote:
> Perhaps, if you enabled non-free software on her computer, kqemu is installed?
> it is a processor accelerator for qemu, but it is not DFSG-compliant, so it
> is in the non-free repo.
>
I agree this is probably it. kqemu makes a *HUGE* difference in
performance. On my k7 machine it must quadruple performance (I've not
measured it, but if feels like it).
However, that said, if I watch my cpu meter, qemu, even under kqemu,
definitely eats some cpu (running win xp in the vm). But it seems to
play pretty nicely with others. So, is it eating all the cpu and
dragging everything else down with it? or is it just using lots of cpu
when it can?
A
> On Monday 25 June 2007 12:17 pm, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > This question is really Really REALLY off topic!
> >
> > I administer my girl friend's Debian machine for her, but do
> > not run Debian myself. I installed QEMU on my machine (Fedora
> > Core) from source, and installed the Debian release on hers.
> > She's pretty happy now running some stuff. But I noticed that
> > on her machine, QEMU does not eat lots of CPU, while on my
> > machine, it eats the machine. I've copied the exact raw image
> > disc from her machine to mine, but QEMU eats my CPU.
> >
> > I wonder what changes the Debian release team made to QEMU
> > to make it run nicer. Does anyone know?
> >
> > Mike
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