On Wednesday 27 February 2008 at 11:12 am, Brian J. Murrell penned about "Re: [vbox-users] XP guest sluggish and eating all CPU"
> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:05 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > > > I know you didn't ask me but in case you do .... :) ... I'm using a > > VDI. > > A virtual disk then? Rather than (a) native partition(s), yes? That's correct: a virtual disk. Or a VDI in the VirtualBox vernacular. > > In your VM's task bar, > > Do you mean the guest's (i.e. WinXP's) taskbar? Yes .. VM = Virtual Machine .. so many acronyms eh? :) > > any memory hungry drives running? > > Hrm. Not sure what you mean by "memory hungry drives". I'm very sorry, I wrote too quickly. I meant any memory hungry _applications_. > > It sounds like your VM is swapping. > > Yeah, that's what I was thinking too, but cranking up the allocated > memory didn't seem to have any measurable effect on that and really, > 512MB should be fairly sufficient for WinXP. I agree however without looking at the data, there's no way to know .... this is why I suggested starting the task manager in the VM and looking at the running processes. There you can also see how much memory they've allocated. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Toll free: 888.459.1926 Fax: 603.720.7723 (US) Text Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
