Virtual flavour runs slow

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:20:19PM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Tim Gardner wrote:
> > http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479440
> > 
> > Perhaps we should consider making -virtual a full flavour as it was in
> > Hardy? It appears that some of the -server settings are no longer
> > appropriate for virtualized instances.
> > 
> > rtg
> 
> It seems to me, when skipping over the virtualbox ticket, that it is
> not the settings in the virtual flavour that causes the problems, but
> the one in the host. Which was the change to make amd64 generally
> rn at a slower tick...

There is a lot of people saying on that bvirtualbox ticket saying their
problems were resolved by the tick change, but there are also a number
who say it did not help and a further number who claimed -16.53 sorted
out their issues; and that is still at 100HZ.  Hrm.

Looking over the vmware thread they just point at virtualbox, and don't
really add anything other than saying "there seems to be a lot of
discussion of bad scheduler performance in 2.6.31" and how "there
should be fixes coming soon to the kernel" which might support the "its
better in -16.53" comments.

-apw