vmware workstation is beating up my disk!

[Lonni J Friedman]

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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