On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 03:11:24PM -0800, Adam Crews wrote:
> No, I installed the tools. they do make a big difference. The problems
> that I see mostly are when starting apps. All apps seem to be very very
> slow at starting. Once they are up and running, things seem to go well.
How tight are you on memory? Loading up apps could be demanding
more memory resulting in swaping taking place. Use "free" or "top"
before and after to check it out.
You might also compare the "load up" speed after closing a few
apps. See if it loads faster after you've loaded and unloaded other
apps. I would be almost certain it was swap effects if that's true.
Solution... Throw more real memory at it.
> -Adam
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Harald Milz wrote:
>
> | Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:29:10 +0100 (CET)
> | From: Harald Milz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Subject: Re: VMware...
> |
> | Adam Crews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> |
> | > vmware is great, but my personal experience is that it take too much
> | > overhead to run on a laptop. I have a 2xPIII 500 that is runs on and is
> | > slow...
I run it on a Compaq Armada 7770 and am quite pleased. I've got
80 Meg of memory, though.
> | > On my Toshiba Tecra 8000 (pII 300) it is just way too slow to be useful
> | > for me.
> |
> | Let me guess - you didn't install the vmware-tools. I am using vmware on a
> | Thinkpad 600 (PII 266) and my AMD K6-2 350 @ home and am quite happy with
> | it.
> |
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> | tickets.
Mike
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