On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
| 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.
I have plenty of memory. 192mb. 256mb swap. Vmware doesnt swap because
I have limited it to 128mb ram.
|
| 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.
|
It is slow on loading the first app after boot, in addition to opening
apps after several have been opened and closed before it.
The simple fact is that things will be slower because the virtual PC is
emulated. For me, this is too slow to use on my laptop. On the
otherhand, my desktop machine usually has NT4, win95 and 1 or 2 linux
sessions running under vmare at a time.
-Adam
