Il giorno lun, 15/01/2007 alle 12.53 -0800, Lonni J Friedman ha scritto: > 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. Try also to monitor on Linux what appens. With top for examples, look at the swap area to see if it's used. With 3 GB of RAM and 2 assigned to vmware, maybe linux also swap. Note also that if you have swap on Windows, the Windows kernel swap even if they don't need to do it :-) Bye Ambrogio