vmware workstation is beating up my disk!
Lonni J Friedman
netllama at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 23:24:07 UTC 2007
On 1/15/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/15/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/15/07, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> 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?
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