vmware workstation is beating up my disk!

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 1/15/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> 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.

I tried this, but windows only shows CPU process usage, not disk, and
there are no offenders anyway.  Any other ideas?


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