Boris Zingerman wrote:
> Well on the second thought it is
> rather understandable why it always
> seems to be in sleeping state, because
> when it wakes from poll it immedeatly
> goes to sleep in another poll call so when
> something like top gets chance to run it
> always sees it as sleeping. (the problem with
> this stupid process is that it doesn't read from
> device so it sees it readable over and over again)
One thing one has to understand regarding vmware is that most of what it
does, it does in the kernel. It has two device drivers to help it
communicate (vmmon and vmnet). You can tell because, when the monitor is
running something, it is usually "system time" that gets accounted for
the time spent (kcpuload is a wonderful thing).
If I were you, I would try to load a knoppix CD inside the guest
machine, and see if the problem goes away there. If it does, then it's
just Windows XP not being idle when it's idle. Better use the XP tools
to debug that one (i.e. - what does taskmgr say regarding the XP CPU usage?)
Shachar
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