Re: netbsd-5 on Citrix XenClient 2.1 (on an HP EliteBook 8460p)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 05:17:01PM -0800, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> One non-scientific observation was that systat both seemed to show a
> large portion of CPU time was spent in the kernel (system time), and a
> relatively small amount of CPU went to user-level, except perhaps when
> the final sets tar files were being compressed.  I.e. it looked to me
> quite different than when I had run the same build on the bare hardware.

That's not completely unexpected as Xen gives significantly higher
system call and context switching overhead.

Joerg