On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
On 1/15/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1/15/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1/15/07, David Timms <dtimms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > Anyone else running VMWare workstation in FC6 (x86)? I've noticed
> > > that whenever vmware is running (WinXP), the disk is getting polled
> > > every other second non-stop. it sounds like little men are marching
> > > around its so loud & annoying. Its not a memory/swap thing as I've
> > > got 3GB of RAM, and vmware has access to a large chunk of it.
> > The host might be running beagle indexing ?
>
> only when vmware is running? btw, its not, i don't even have beagle
installed.
>
> > Does top or win process manager list any interesting items ?
>
> nope
>
> > How much memory do you have assigned to the vmguest ?
>
> about 2.1GB
>
> > Is the win machine set to not do windows updates etc ? {or office
indexing}
>
> office isn't installed, but it does have windows update set to run
> automagically. but i really doubt that's the issue, as the disk
> polling is non-stop all the time, and windows update isn't always
> doing stuff.
>
Windows disk defragmentation or file indexing enabled?
I've not enabled them explicitly. I didn't think that either was
possible in the background in XP. If it is, I'm not even sure where
to look for it?
Typing CTRL-ALT-DEL in Windows brings up a process manager window. You
can browse that and see if you can detect the culprit process.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
