From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Feb 3 9:23:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3E737B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:23:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from kestrel.alerce.com (kestrel.alerce.com [209.182.219.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5029A43F3F for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:23:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@rosebud.alerce.com) Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (rosebud.lbl.gov [131.243.193.115]) by kestrel.alerce.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h13HNOk6030754 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:23:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@rosebud.alerce.com) X-Authentication-Warning: kestrel.alerce.com: Host rosebud.lbl.gov [131.243.193.115] claimed to be rosebud.alerce.com Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (rosebud.alerce.com [127.0.0.1]) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h13HNNRm034999 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:23:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@rosebud.alerce.com) Received: (from hartzell@localhost) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.7/8.12.6/Submit) id h13HNNHa034996; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:23:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:23:23 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200302031723.h13HNNHa034996@rosebud.alerce.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: George Hartzell Reply-To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell) To: "Welch, Sean M." Cc: freebsd-emulators@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware pegging the CPU? In-Reply-To: <5B7014A44B89494E830AD32859FBC858010AE60C@nsc-msg01.network.com> References: <5B7014A44B89494E830AD32859FBC858010AE60C@nsc-msg01.network.com> X-Authentication-Warning: kestrel.alerce.com: Host rosebud.lbl.gov [131.243.193.115] claimed to be rosebud.alerce.com X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [resent to fix the typo in the freebsd-emulation address, since I'd like to see the answer get into the archives.] Thanks Sean, That did the trick. I may be crazy, but it seems like Quicken (my main VMware app) actually runs more smoothly with rtc disabled.... Probably just the power of suggestion. g. Welch, Sean M. writes: > George, I run vmware on my Inspiron 8000 and have found that the pegging > is due to the rtc module. Disable that and the CPU usage will drop down to > something more normal. I only turn it on when I want smooth multimedia > and/or sound. If you don't know what I'm talking about take a look at the > devices menu -- you can attach and detach it while the virtual machine is > actually running. > > Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message