I had posted this in the install boot forum by accident, so I am posting it here now.
I am attempting to improve the performance of 12.1 running under VirtualBox.
It takes 2 minutes plus after hitting the grub boot, through login, though the point where the desktop appears in a usable manner. After that, ordinary functions like launching firefox, or starting the file manager, take a relative long time.
I have assigned 1.3GB ram, 90MB video, 1 processor, acceleration, to the VM. (I only have a two processor box so I can spare only one for VB)I had noticed with lower ram it did swap.
The host OS reports only minimal cpu after the VM gets going. The 12.1 guest OS top shows minimal cpu, and no swapping.
So, is this expected behavior for SuSE in a VM? Or, will 12.1 performance improve in VM after it makes general release? What can I do to make 12.1 run faster on my present hardware?
I had posted this in the install boot forum by accident, so I am posting it here now.
I am attempting to improve the performance of 12.1 running under VirtualBox.
It takes 2 minutes plus after hitting the grub boot, through login, though the point where the desktop appears in a usable manner. After that, ordinary functions like launching firefox, or starting the file manager, take a relative long time.
I have assigned 1.3GB ram, 90MB video, 1 processor, acceleration, to the VM. (I only have a two processor box so I can spare only one for VB)I had noticed with lower ram it did swap.
The host OS reports only minimal cpu after the VM gets going. The 12.1 guest OS top shows minimal cpu, and no swapping.
So, is this expected behavior for SuSE in a VM? Or, will 12.1 performance improve in VM after it makes general release? What can I do to make 12.1 run faster on my present hardware?
Thanks.
So it comes up in less than a minute on my PC, but I am giving it double the resources over what you are as I have a quad core CPU and more memory. So, give it more power, it comes up faster and no surprise there. Its beta with an RC kernel and should be better in its final release. I am not sure I would be worried about its performance at this time, but its just my opinion.
> So it comes up in less than a minute on my PC, but I am giving it
> double the resources over what you are as I have a quad core CPU and
> more memory. So, give it more power, it comes up faster and no surprise
> there. Its beta with an RC kernel and should be better in its final
> release. I am not sure I would be worried about its performance at this
> time, but its just my opinion.
>
I think this is a bit an artefact on the virtual machine. I installed the
12.1 RC1 on my real hardware (see below) and using btrfs which I want to
test under real world conditions and it feels as if it is somewhat faster
than 11.4 was on the same machine. This is more a feeling, but since I use
it now daily with the most important programs (some I installed from
different factory repos, don’t do that if you want a stable system, I do not
mind if something breaks for me and I need to repair it). I doubt the
performance is just an illusion.
With several large pdf’s in okular open and kontact running (3 mail accounts
with together roughly 50.000 emails in imap folders) plus firefox with ~20
tabs and an development IDE running it needs rarely more than 1.8 - 2 GB
which is about the same as on 11.4 in that situation.
Without programs running it eats less than a gig.
Maybe there are still some rough edges where vbox is slowed down by some
features in that version - just guessing.
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PC: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420
| 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 12.1 RC1 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.2 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:26:02 +0000, steven p wrote:
> I have assigned 1.3GB ram, 90MB video, 1 processor, acceleration, to the
> VM. (I only have a two processor box so I can spare only one for VB)I
> had noticed with lower ram it did swap.
On 11/02/2011 09:05 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:26:02 +0000, steven p wrote:
>
>> I have assigned 1.3GB ram, 90MB video, 1 processor, acceleration, to the
>> VM. (I only have a two processor box so I can spare only one for VB)I
>> had noticed with lower ram it did swap.
>
> What are the specs on the host system?
On my 2.0 GHz dual core AMD processor, 12.1 RC1 takes 90 sec from the <CR> to
start GRUB until the chimes sound. That is with KDE and includes starting one
terminal window. I too am allowing the VM access to a single CPU and 1 GB of
RAM. For acceleration, I have VT-x/AMD-V turned on and I allow nested paging.
My graphics adapter is by nVidea, but I’m using nv, the framebuffer driver.
Strange.
Under my Virtualbox VM version 12.1 XFCE boots in about ~20secs, that is almost 10secs faster than 11.4 XFCE (because of systemd?)
2 Cores and 1G Memory for VM, VT-x enabled, ext4 filesystem.
On 11/04/2011 07:46 AM, steven p wrote:
>
> Still hanging with VirtualBox during my exploration of 12.1
>
> I performed these steps:
> 1. used zypper dup to download RC2 (took at least 2 hours on my fairly
> slow net connection)
> 2. installed it (took a good 3 hours +)
>
> After rebooting (no issues whatsoever), I discovered:
> 1. Time from grub to login - 1min
> 2. Time from login to first usable desktop - 1.5min
> These are improvements from RC1, for me.
>
> As to loading and using apps:
> 1. firefox takes 30sec to load, after that, performance is unacceptably
> slow IMO.
> 2. Responsiveness of other items, like the file manager, is improved.
>
> I am happy that the zypper dup worked fine, and the machine rebooted
> without issue.
>
> I trust that 12.1 when finally released, will perform as well as 11.4.
There will be few differences between RC2 and the final release. There are no
“magic bullet” changes that will speed it up.
I giving 4 GB to it , it takes at least 1 minute to get to the login prompt, once there it takes another minute or so, then I get an error on the desktop feature
The proces for the desktop protocol died unexpectedly.
The host OS is windows 7 ,64 bits,4 cores, 8GB ram.
I`m using oracle VM manager version 4.1.6
Wondering if suse 12.1 needs special config,
I have 11.1 and it runs with out any problem
Am 22.11.2011 14:56, schrieb jcleiva:
>
> Hi all
>
> I`m having the same problem
I giving 4 GB to it , it takes at least 1 minute to get to the login
prompt, once there it takes another minute or so, then I get an error on
the desktop feature
The proces for the desktop protocol died unexpectedly.
The host OS is windows 7 ,64 bits,4 cores, 8GB ram.
I`m using oracle VM manager version 4.1.6
>
> Wondering if suse 12.1 needs special config,
> I have 11.1 and it runs with out any problem
>
> Thanks in advance for any tip on this one.
>
>
I am really not sure where this problems come from (is it specific to
the Windows host?). When I start my appliance (openSUSE 12.1 64 bit with
xfce, it has assigned only 1GB RAM from which 128MB are assigned to the
graphics and only one CPU) in VB 4.1 on a 64 bit linux host it is after
20 seconds at the gui login prompt and then needs about 7 seconds to
show me a fully usable desktop (I just stopped it with my wrist watch so
it is all +/- 1 second). Of course this test is not with kde, but I also
have a kde appliance with 2GB RAM assigned which comes nowhere near the
slow boot you report (I can check the exact numbers for it in the evening).
–
PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.3 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram
On 11/22/2011 07:56 AM, jcleiva wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I`m having the same problem
I giving 4 GB to it , it takes at least 1 minute to get to the login
prompt, once there it takes another minute or so, then I get an error on
the desktop feature
The proces for the desktop protocol died unexpectedly.
The host OS is windows 7 ,64 bits,4 cores, 8GB ram.
I`m using oracle VM manager version 4.1.6
>
> Wondering if suse 12.1 needs special config,
> I have 11.1 and it runs with out any problem
No. Try using F5 to change the boot style for 12.1 to SystemV instead of the
default systemd. Does that make any difference?
It’s not clear to me whether you are running the Gold Master (GM) for 12.1 or not.
In case you are running the GM, I wonder if the boot/install forum would be more appropriate?
My experience with running the 12.1 GM KDE release is as follows:
Hardware:
MBP 2.4Ghz Dual, 8GB RAM
Software Host Environment:
VirtualBox 4.1.6 under Lion
Guest Environment:
12.1 GM KDE with 1GB RAM and one processor, 50MB video RAM, video acceleration on.
Performance:
Time from Grub to login to usable desktop: < 45sec.
Time to launch apps: mostly < 5secs.
Overall performance: very good.
Tweaking: None.
Improvement over RC2: Very high.
I had a similar issue. My machine is very high end yet OpenSUSE 12.1 ran very slow in virtualbox. I discovered that my main problem was with my definition of the virtual machine itself within virtualbox.
I defined my machine as: Linux, OpenSUSE
It should have been: Linux, OpenSUSE (x64)
After I made this change everything worked great with KDE and Gnome.