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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To: Arjan de Vet <Arjan.deVet@adv.iae.nl>
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Subject: Re: Vmware 2.0 / NT4 / 100% system CPU time [FIXED]
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On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:22:41PM +0200, Arjan de Vet wrote:
> I wrote:
> 
> >I'm currently evaluating VMware 2.0 for Linux (build 476) using the
> >vmware2 port on a recent 4.0-stable kernel with XFree 3.3.3.1.
> 
> OK, I've been playing some more, including going back to VMware 1.1.2.
> 
> I upgraded:
> 
> - kernel and linux.ko to todays 4.0-stable version;
> - XFree to 3.3.6;
> - added rtc port;
> 
> With vmware 1.1.2 this still gives 99% system CPU but after switching
> back to VMware 2.0 I now have more normal levels of CPU usage (<5%). I
> have no idea where the problem has been but as far as I can see it works
> now.
> 

We'e solved it. It turned out to be the VMWare tools suite. You have to
upgrade those as well, and apparently we forgot that. Uninstalling
the old one and installing the new one fixes it.

-Guido


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