On 1/16/07, Ambrogio <fn050202@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Il giorno lun, 15/01/2007 alle 12.53 -0800, Lonni J Friedman ha scritto: > Anyone else running VMWare workstation in FC6 (x86)? I've noticed > that whenever vmware is running (WinXP), the disk is getting polled > every other second non-stop. it sounds like little men are marching > around its so loud & annoying. Its not a memory/swap thing as I've > got 3GB of RAM, and vmware has access to a large chunk of it. Try also to monitor on Linux what appens. With top for examples, look at the swap area to see if it's used. With 3 GB of RAM and 2 assigned to vmware, maybe linux also swap.
No, there's no swapping going on, I've already checked that. Plus swap usage in linux shouldn't normally result in a regular pattern of disk access.
Note also that if you have swap on Windows, the Windows kernel swap even if they don't need to do it :-)
Windows has a swap file. I'm not sure what that would suggest with respect to this problem thoiugh. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
