Re: qemu/kvm vs top

2017-07-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2017-07-09 at 10:07 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > On 07/09/2017 09:46 AM, stan wrote: > > On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 14:36:58 +0100 > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > Sometimes the GPU runs hot and I pause the VM to let it cool, however > > > 'top' shows qemu-system-x86 sucking up over 25% o

Re: qemu/kvm vs top

2017-07-09 Thread stan
On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 10:07:20 -0700 Mike Wright wrote: > When using *top* press "1" to see status by core. (It's a toggle) Thanks for the tip, that works great. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users

Re: qemu/kvm vs top

2017-07-09 Thread Mike Wright
On 07/09/2017 09:46 AM, stan wrote: On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 14:36:58 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Sometimes the GPU runs hot and I pause the VM to let it cool, however 'top' shows qemu-system-x86 sucking up over 25% of CPU. OTOH the KDE System Activity tool shows it using only 3%. Clearly they

Re: qemu/kvm vs top

2017-07-09 Thread stan
On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 14:36:58 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Sometimes the GPU runs hot and I pause the VM to let it cool, however > 'top' shows qemu-system-x86 sucking up over 25% of CPU. OTOH the KDE > System Activity tool shows it using only 3%. Clearly they can't both > be right. > > Is t

qemu/kvm vs top

2017-07-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I'm running a Windows 10 VM under QEMU/KVM, using libvirt via the Virtual Machine Manager. I have the VM configured with 8GB assigned to the VM with hugepages (of 16GB total in the box) and VFIO passthrough of my Nvidia graphics card. I have also pinned 2 of my 4 CPU cores (i.e. 4 threads) for gami