Brian Mathis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:22 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: <snip> >> Here's another one, that I got from another admin talking to VMware: >> watch out just how many virtual CPUs you assign to each VM. If you've >> assigned 4, it is actually going to sit there waiting until it gets 4 >> virtual CPUs. >> As of '09, VMware was recommending assigning 2. > > This is no longer true [1], but it's still a good idea to only assign > as many CPUs as you need. > > [1] Source: VMware Engineer at VMware Forum 2011. Ah, thanks! Yeah, the problem was with overcommitting. Glad to hear that's solved. mark