Whats eating my cpu ?

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On Thursday 07 June 2007 12:16, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> On Thursday 07 June 2007 11:35, Ian Lord wrote:
> > Most of the interrupts avg 1000 are with clk, I guess this is the
> > clock... I guess it has something to do with the fact I'm currently
> > running under "Microsoft Virtual Server"
>
> Ah it's a virtual machine! Add to /boot/loader.conf kern.hz="100".
> This will make the kernel tick 100 time per second. The default is
> 1000 times per second, which might be a bit high for your virtual
> machine "server". Don't know if it's going to affect your situation,
> but it's good to set it this way, anyway.
>
> Most virtual machine users, face problems with timing...

Forgot to mention that you have to reboot,
for the change to take effect.