Am Mittwoch, den 01.12.2004, 09:20 -0500 schrieb Lotsa Cabo: > Okay, what gives? I just installed FC3 into VMWare v4.5 on an XP host. > Man, is it SLOOOOOOOOOW! It took almost 45 minutes just to boot. My > configuration is as follows: > > PIII 1.2 GHz > WinXP Pro SP2 > 512MB with 256MB dedicated to the virtual machine > VM hard drive image is 5GB (all allocated) > VM hard drive image is on a partition by itself > > Can someone please explain to me why this is happening and how to get it up > to a livable speed. See http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1420 This fixed it for me: In standard 2.6 kernels, the timer interrupt rate is fixed at kernel compile time and cannot be changed by command line parameters. You can, however, recompile your kernel with a lower timer interrupt rate. See the documentation for your Linux distribution for detailed instructions on how to build and run a custom kernel. Before recompiling the guest kernel, locate the following line in /usr/src/linux-2.6/include/asm- i386/param.h: #define HZ 1000 Change the value of HZ to 100: #define HZ 100 HTH CU thl -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
