Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:03:49 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem |
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On 28 Jan 2002 06:25:05 -0500 Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 05:14, Alan Cox wrote: > > If so then I suspect vmware should be issuing APM cpu busy calls itself > > Do you see a difference between VMware and other processes > in their susceptibility to this problem? If VMware runs > slowly because it gets scheduled in while the CPU is idle > and the apm driver fails to busyize the CPU, won't the same > thing happen for other processes? If so, then our idle > handling is fundamentally broken. If not, then what makes > VMware special?
Maybe it's just broken. I have some strange problems with hanging vmware 3 (reproducable) on a SMP machine. On an equal machine vmware 2 runs flawlessly. There is no APM or the like involved, both under 2.4.18-pre7. I just don't trust it.
Regards, Stephan
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