I have a Dell Precision 450 with 2x xeon 2.4GHz. A fast machine!
I have RH9 and use vmware 4.0 with win2k in it.
As soon as vmware makes a lot of disk access, all the machine becomes VERY slow, mozilla can take up to 3-6 seconds just to show a window, and changing desktops takes also 3-6 seconds....
If I have compute intensive processes in vmware, nothing special happens, things are well. But is a process makes a lot of disk io, like a link of our big applcation in MsDev6, ALL the machine becomes very slow!
I have 2 IDE disks, each on a different bus (hda on IDE0 is for RH9 and hdc on IDE1 is for vmware).
I suspect a diskio problem, but with what exactly?
Anyone has experienced same problems?
Thanks.
-jec
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