Opened 12 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#11375 new defect
Running Virtualbox causes high CPU usage in Elan Touchpad drivers
| Reported by: | tmk | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 4.2.6 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | Windows |
Description
Seeing high cpu usage on etdctrl.exe on Win 8 64bit host when any VM is started. Process must be killed manually and restarted to regain touchpad features.
etdctrl.exe is part of the Elan Touchpad driver suite.
Host is on Win 8 64bit, Acer Aspire S7-391.
Attachments (4)
Change History (15)
comment:1 by , 12 years ago
by , 12 years ago
| Attachment: | Lubuntu X64-2013-01-16-12-45-00.log added |
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Log file with high CPU utilization from touchpad driver
comment:2 by , 12 years ago
I have the same problem with elan touchpad on win8 x64 when running a VM.
by , 12 years ago
| Attachment: | VBoxSVC.log added |
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Logfile from session that resulted in elan going high CPU
by , 12 years ago
| Attachment: | Ubuntu-2013-01-24-21-24-35.log added |
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Logfile from session that resulted in elan going high CPU
comment:3 by , 11 years ago
Have the same issue sporadically on Windows 7 x64 too. Happens after a while of running multiple VMs. Note that I have some VMs running without additions and with virtual USB tablet mode and it feels as if pausing and resuming the VMs makes it more likely. But that might be a coincidence as well.
Killing and restarting "%ProgramFiles%\Elantech\ETDCtrl.exe" works to get the CPU consumption down to (almost) zero.
by , 11 years ago
| Attachment: | VBoxSVC.2.log added |
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00:05:22.219000 USBPROXY usbLibDevStrDrEntryGet: DeviceIoControl 1 fail winEr (31)
comment:4 by , 11 years ago
Same problem.
- Host OS: Win 8
- Host Model: Samsung 700Z
- Touchpad: Elan Smart-Pad
- Touchpad Driver: ETDWare PS/2-X64 11.7.2.1_WHQL
comment:5 by , 11 years ago
I'm also having the same problem.
Host OS: Windows 7 / Host Model: Samsung 700Z (Series 7 Chronos) / Touchpad: Elan Smart-Pad / Driver Version: 10.7.16.1
It seems to be more of a problem when I set the number of processors to more than 1.
comment:6 by , 11 years ago
Same for me here.
- Host OS: Win 8
- Host Model: Samsung Series 7 Ultra (NP730U3E)
- Touchpad: Elan Smart-Pad
- Touchpad Driver: ETDWare X64 11.7.10.4_WHQL
Have to kill the process ETDCtrl.exe and restart it for everything to go back to normal.
comment:7 by , 11 years ago
Just for info: Have upgraded my touchpad driver a few weeks ago and not seen the issue since then.
Host is a Lenovo Thinkpad L530 running Windows 7 x64 and the latest driver version for that model is 11.4.30.1.
comment:8 by , 10 years ago
I am having the same problem.
- Host OS: Win 8.1
- Host Model: Samsung ATIV Book 9 Full (940X3GK03)
- Guest OS (not sure it matters): OpenSUSE
Killing and restarting the process doesn't help, because as soon as I move my mouse inside the VM it starts using 30% again.
comment:9 by , 9 years ago
I also have the same issue. High CPU usage after using VirtualBox.
Obviously, this is a bug with ETDCtrl.exe, but what is triggering it?
The interesting part is that I monitored ETDCtrl.exe with procmon.exe (SysInternals) and it is appear to be in loop querying for a key in the registry. I printed the screen. This make any sense to you guys?
comment:10 by , 9 years ago
I rushed me in the last message.
The ETDCtrl.exe app keeps querying this key in registry as its normal behavior. So this is not what is causing the high CPU usage. :(
comment:11 by , 7 years ago
I was having the same problem here:
Host OS: Windows 8.1
Host Machine: Lenovo G480
Guest OS: Fedora 25
VirtualBox Version 5.1.22
I had installed the ELAN TouchPad driver 11.4.10.2 and was having the problem of ETDCtrl.exe eating about 30% of CPU usage as soon the VM grabed the mouse and only stopping after force killing the ETDCtrl.exe process. Per advice of user mihi42 above, i updated the ELAN driver to version 11.4.49.1 from another Lenovo model (http://support.lenovo.com/br/pt/downloads/ds101661) and the problem is now fixed.



Could you please attach the log file for such session?