On 5/25/07, Brent L. Bates <blbates at vigyan.com> wrote: > I thought some people here might like to know what we just found out > while trying to get VMWare running under CentOS 5. Before we found the note > about changing VMWare from 2 to 1 CPU's, we went to `Edit' -> `Preferences' -> > `Memory' and changed the memory option to: > > Fit All virtual memory into reserved host RAM > > It had been set to the next option down, second out of 3 (we don't have the > system any more to see what it said word for word). This had a HUGE effect on > performance. Before the change, it would take several minutes to do anything > under VMWare. Startups and shutdowns were dog slow. Turning off the swap > options helped a lot. After that, we also changed from 2 to 1 CPU's and that > helped a little bit, but the memory option change had the biggest effect. > Just thought you might like to know. The second option is: Allow some virtual machine memory to be swapped Akemi > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >