On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 23:34 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >Can you validate that in real-life?? Since I see my CPU usage is > 80% > >all the time. Need to know if it's RAM or CPU dependent. > > > > > > Well, that sounds more like a software configuration problem. For me, > if the virtual machine is idle, the CPU usage of VMWare is 2-3%. But I > have not run Linux inside of VMWare for quite some time, so I have no > real tips to offer there. Someone on the VMWare forums might have a > better suggestion regarding the high CPU utilization.
No.. It's just high when there's disk accesses. eg: copying a directory of files or untaring the new portage snapshot/stages etc. > > As for memory, I have 1G total, and currently run XP with 256MB of > memory. I occasionally need to start 2 instances of Visual Studio, plus > jEdit (nice editor, but uses java, so hugh memory hog), plus some custom > software, and so on. This is doable in 256, but the system can take > several seconds to switch between tasks or open a new explorer window. > With 512M, those delays disappear. (BTW, I don't run with 512 normally, > because usually when I'm doing all of that, I also have to have an NT4.0 > virtual machine running at the same time.) Cool. Now that you've taken that out the picture, I think I will get that 1 stick of 1GB RAM when I have enough dough. Time to save up then.. :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:32:12 up 20:07, 5 users, load average: 0.25, 0.34, 0.38 -- [email protected] mailing list
