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From: Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>
To: Jan Rychter <jan-JAsPCFd0eodBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: VMware and ACPI
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:32:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030919203214.GA579@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k789sotw.fsf-dTJq59+VGzkkCw8IV3R6h0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>

Hi!

> Hmm... just wondering: what happened to the VMware/ACPI interaction
> issues that some people were reporting here?
> 
> There were some discussions and it seemed that ACPI idling the processor
> while VMware really wanted to use it was the cuplrit. Any resulting
> changes?
> 
> I'm running 2.4.22-pre10 now and my WindowsXP inside VMware runs
> horribly slow. It gets considerably better if I leave an USB device
> plugged in (which causes ACPI to use C2 only and never go into C3), but
> it still isn't full speed.

What about something like 

nice -n 19 while1

?

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-19 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-15 21:51 VMware and ACPI Jan Rychter
     [not found] ` <m2k789sotw.fsf-dTJq59+VGzkkCw8IV3R6h0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2003-09-16  9:00   ` Frank Mehnert
     [not found]     ` <200309161100.52454.fm3-IG//nw+yl+iQIjdd1DhZXWfrygkm6VTR@public.gmane.org>
2003-09-16 19:42       ` Jan Rychter
2003-09-19 17:51         ` Jan Rychter
2003-09-19 20:32   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20030919203214.GA579-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2003-09-22 19:56       ` Jan Rychter
     [not found]         ` <m28yoglhra.fsf-dTJq59+VGzkkCw8IV3R6h0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2003-09-23  6:05           ` Pavel Machek

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