14.09.2010 17:29, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] >> Please post an strace again, this time with -e trace=select. Looks like >> each timer callback results in >50 syscalls, 4 of which are select()s). I just built 0.13-rc1 to see how that one performs. It is very similar to 0.12 in this respect. The selfpipe is gone, but the high load is still here and is exactly like was with 0.12, with very similar strace. /mjt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html