Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Jason Boxman wrote:
>
>> On Monday 31 July 2006 00:18, Eben King wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> That indicates to me that the guest OS is trying to invoke a screen
>>> saver, and VMware doesn't support the method it's using. If there's a
>>> boot option to disable it, use it. It might be part of some power-saving
>>> package (think ACPI).
>>
>> I finally came across a thread that sounds similar to that, but the issue
>> was the host OS CPU was being throttled down.
>
> Yeah, I think you should disable ACPI from inside the guest OS. The best
> situation is that it sees the CPU state accurately, and its instructions to
> the OS are heeded. But the host OS will always have at least as accurate a
> picture, and its instructions are sure to be heeded.
I thought about it, but my laptop is a P4-based Celeron and doesn't support
any MHz throttling.
>> I did finally complete a Dapper text-only install, so it seems I may have
>> not been waiting long enough. It took two hours. After, even with VMWare
>> tools, my X session would 'hang' for five to thirty seconds on occasion
>> with the host OS idle and the guest doing simple things like opening
>> Konsole windows. I think my laptop is simply too slow, although I had no
>> issues doing this ages ago with VMWare on a much slower laptop with less
>> RAM and VMWare 2.x or 3.x. Oh well.
>
> Try running "top" in your guest OS to see how much swap it's using. It may
> be thrashing. Actually I think it might be more efficient to just give
> VMware more RAM, and skip swap entirely.
That was my first thought, but my favorite part is that wasn't happening at
all. I was at most 12M in swap. Generally my CPU was always pegged in the
host at 100%. `vmstat` reported nearly no disk access and never any I/O
wait at all, just sys pegging the guest. I never could pin it on anything
specifically as the host was idle. Ordinarily I'd suspect DMA was off in
either the host or the guest, except it wasn't.
Really a mystery.
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