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Xen versus VirtualBox

Xen versus VirtualBox

Posted Aug 12, 2008 21:31 UTC (Tue) by danieldk (subscriber, #27876)
In reply to: Xen versus VirtualBox by leighbb
Parent article: Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

On CentOS we have also seen comparable idle guest load. Setting the timer frequency
(CONFIG_HZ) to a lower value will often help much. Of course, it's up to you to decide if
that's ok for your workload.

There's more information here:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189


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