I purchased a new Dell 9300 to replace teh 8600 I have been using. The lap is nearly identical to teh 8600. When running VMWare with w2k it was unbearably slow. Through some googeling and VMWare's forums I found that teh cpu kept going to sleep state when running vmware. So the best solution I found so far is to write a bash script as below:
#!/bin/bash echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate vmwarearts echo 8 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate I named it vmware_script and placed it in /etc/vmware, and execute it to run vmware. It works great as long as I execute as root : chmod o+w /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate So that as a user you can execute the max_cstate command. This works but whenever you boot the laptop you have to su to root and execute teh chmod again or the state will not be enforced and vmware is deathly slow. Does anyone here have a better solution?? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman ________________________________________ Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.15-ck2 | VMWare Workstation 5.5.1 vmware.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | ________________________________________| -- [email protected] mailing list
