Re: Bhyve process consumes way too much CPU

From: Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:53:35 UTC
Are you talking with me ? I can install Home Assistant only on the hardware
that I already have. Actually the best piece of hardware that I can use for
my project (installing the chat gpt module on Home Assistant + a speech
recognition software to give a voice to chat gpt) is the nvidia jetson
nano. And If I remember correctly,it supports only Ubuntu. I can do the
same on my Workstation,but I prefer to have the ability to move the smaller
nano within a plastic container. At the end of the day It will be almost
the same as a vocal assistant,but uch more programmable.

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 5:41 PM Nikita Olenets <zeon@zeon.kiev.ua> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any specific reason you want it to be installed under Ubuntu?
> I’m asking this because I use HasOS(home assistant OS) which is based on
> Linux (can’t recall the distribution) and I’m running this for three years
> now. No issues at all. I do have even passed through ZigBee usb stick and
> it works just fine.
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 11:12 Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Julie.
>>
>> As I said some days ago,I'm trying to install homeassistant. For the
>> moment I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 that I have installed on the Jetson nano,but
>> later I will use Ubuntu within bhyve on FreeBSD. Unfortunately,a
>> developer,I suppose,told me that homeassistant is not supported on ubuntu.
>> In Fact I tried to do that following this tutorial :
>>
>> https://vikoky.medium.com/jetson-nano-powered-house-29ce73f11de4
>>
>> but I've got a lot of errors. I've started a thread on reddit,asking for
>> help,here :
>>
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/11wglx7/homeassisant_cant_be_installed_on_ubuntu_2004_the/
>>
>> and he/she told me that ubuntu is not supported. So,which linux
>> distribution have you used within bhyve ? thanks.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 7:12 PM Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 18/03/2023 14:59, Julie Koubová wrote:
>>> > Hey everyone,
>>> >
>>> > I'm running Linux (Home Assistant OS) in Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1. I use
>>> > PCI passthrough to allow the VM to access a USB card with a couple of
>>> > radio dongles. The host machine is an Intel Core i3 13100 with 64 GB
>>> of
>>> > RAM. The CPU has 4 physical cores (8 hyper-threaded). The virtual
>>> > machine is assigned four cores.
>>> >
>>> > The host load averages are 0.39 0.39 0.40 right now, which seems way
>>> too
>>> > much. The same workload was previously handled by a Raspberry Pi 4,
>>> and
>>> > the CPU usage there was under 10% when not doing anything special.
>>> > Inside the guest OS, the CPU usage is reported around 5%, which seems
>>> > reasonable.
>>> >
>>> > What's wrong? How can I start debugging this issue? I use ZFS on the
>>> > host, vm-bhyve to manage the virtual machines, and I don't have a swap
>>> > partition.
>>>
>>> I had similar problem few years ago. Never solved. Exhibited on bhyve
>>> and VirtualBox too. The problem was "the more vCPU for VM, the slower
>>> VM".
>>> Can you try to set just 1 vCPU to your VM? In my case, VM with 1 vCPU
>>> was fast, almost no overhead, 2 v CPUs slightly slower but 4 or more was
>>> slow as hell.
>>> I would also recommend not to overprovision real CPU core count to vCPU
>>> and not use multi/hyper threading cores as real cores. With your CPU,
>>> use only 4 cores to assign to all your VMs (4 VMs with 1 vCPU each, or 2
>>> VMs with 2 vCPU each, 1 VM with 4 vCPU)
>>>
>>> Miroslav Lachman
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Mario.
>>
> --
> Nikita Olenets
>
>

-- 
Mario.