gnome-shell cpu usage during installation

[Chris Murphy]

On Jun 18, 2013, at 12:22 PM, John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon.com> wrote:

>> If I try to do this in KVM (2x CPU), I see gnome-shell taking 5%, X not even displayed in top, and all CPU power going to rsync (2x 10%) and loop3 (80%).
> 
> Please tell us how much virtual RAM was allocated to the KVM instance.
> loop3 at 80% CPU for long periods is page thrashing: re-decompressing
> parts of the ".exe" over and over because the resulting pages
> are discarded too quickly.

I have the same issue with loop3 on baremetal, it's variable between 45-80% CPU. 4GB RAM on that computer.

Chris Murphy