Re: gnome-boxes, high cpu when guest is idle

[Eric Phetteplace]

I've learned two more things:
1. I installed an ubuntu guest OS, and it has the same high host cpu when the guest is
idle.
2. using strace, I see this is 97% of the system calls:
ppoll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=25, events=POLLIN}, {fd=26, events=POLLIN},
{fd=27, events=POLLIN}, {fd=30, events=POLLIN}, {fd=31, events=POLLIN}, {fd=32,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=33, events=POLLIN}, {fd=34, events=POLLIN}, {fd=35, events=POLLIN},
{fd=36, events=POLLIN}, {fd=37, events=POLLIN}, {fd=38, events=POLLIN}, {fd=39,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=40, events=POLLIN}, {fd=41, events=POLLIN}, {fd=42, events=POLLIN},
{fd=43, events=POLLIN}, {fd=44, events=POLLIN}, {fd=45, events=POLLIN}, {fd=46,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=47, events=POLLIN}, {fd=48, events=POLLIN}, {fd=49, events=POLLIN},
{fd=50, events=POLLIN}, {fd=51, events=POLLIN}, {fd=52, events=POLLIN}, {fd=53,
events=POLLIN}, ...], 84, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=0}, NULL, 8) = 0 (Timeout)