Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#17209 new defect
VB Unusably slow
| Reported by: | teo8976 | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.28 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I had been using VB 3.x and 4.x for years, years ago. It has always been slow but it used to be almost usable.
Now I have upgraded to 5.1.28 and it's unusably slow. Even the application's menus on the host are unresponsive (to the point you even lose clicks on the menus, e.g. the Machine or Devices menu.
I did view->Take screenshot and it took more than a minute for the popup to appear. That's just an example.
My host is ubuntu (on an i7 processor with 4GB RAM) and the guest is Windows 7. Both 64bit.
I am using the very same computer and the same host and guest OS (and the same VM) that I was using years ago with VB 3.x and 4.x and it is WAY slower.
It's pathetic.
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Replying to teo8976:
That seems low end kind of a computer (especially the 4 GB of RAM). No kidding it would have issues running two modern 64-bit OSes concurrently with a min. requirement of 2 GB each before even they could run Minesweeper. You *did* do the math on how much RAM each one requires and how much you can afford, right? And you were still left with some RAM available for your host and your guest to do the mandatory caching and swapping, right?
Hardware moves forward. So does software. If you want to stick with what was working "years ago", by all means do. Software 5 years later makes pretty solid and justified assumptions about the hardware that it runs on. If you want to run Win98, more power to you. But do not expect today's software (or even hardware) to be able to run Win98 or on Win98. No way!
A lot of people could argue the same for the quality of your bug report. Not me of course. I would simply ask a question: can you please explain to me why you skipped all the instructions in the ticket opening page? And you went straight for the ticket? I don't even see a ZIPPED "VBox.log", which was kind of a bold requirement.