vmware workstation is beating up my disk!

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> 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?

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.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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