Fmstrat / Fmstrat/winapps

Winapps running cpu @ ~25%. Fixed by changing performance options

Open
#197 1 comment 3 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
Dominant language
Shell
Stars
10.3k
Forks
452
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

Hi, I was struggling with high cpu load while the vm was idle, with no programs running. It often maxed out the vm cpu usage, and had the computer's cpu sitting around 25%.

I found this blog: https://hex.ro/wp/blog/kvm-qemu-high-cpu-load-but-low-cpu-usage/
which suggested a solution by changing the performance options from the default 'hypervisor default', to setting cache mode to 'none', and IO mode to 'native' (screenshot attached)
![performance options](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/59325411/111906918-02afd900-8a8e-11eb-9064-03b8fc8f41fc.png)
. This seems to have brought the idle cpu usage down to 1-3%.
I don't really know what these options are doing, so I don't know if there's a downside to this.

Is this a sensible change?
And if so, maybe it could be added to the setup instructions.

Thanks
j

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.