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[Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/23/2011 06:09 PM, ∅ wrote:

> Really? I've never had this problem, VM or not.
> 
> Which screensaver are you using? I'm using GLMatrix.


The default one does it for me, at least in virtualbox VMs.  Although I
usually don't notice it for weeks, because I leave only one such VM
running unles I am doing something fairly unusual, and on a quad core
CPU, having just one core wasting its time screensaving a VM doesn't
really make any noticeable difference to normal desktop usage at all --
then much much later, I run something that really taxes the CPU and can
use multiple threads, run top or htop, and there it is :)

Setting the xscreensaver default to blank screen seems like a good
solution, being (hopefully) straightforward to implement, and yet
reducing the unwanted CPU load very substantially.

Jonathan