Have you tried to switch it back to 1 CPU or try to close fusion when not in use to save battery power? On Mar 11, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yesterday, for the first time ever, my MBA battery went to 10% before the > end of the day. Usually I finish the day with 60 - 70% remaining. Turns out, > VM Fusion is listed in the battery menu as using significant amounts of > energy. Using activity monitor I see that it is using average energy of .19 > and above - way above any other apps. > I thought the drain might be something going on in windows7, but the drain > occurs with the windows VM powered off or on, in fact, just opening VMWare > Fusion from the app folder puts it in the "using significant amounts of > energy" listing of the battery menu. > I'm running fusion V5.3 and haven't upgraded since upgrading to Maverichs a > week or so ago. This drain is happening on my iMac as well. At least, the > activity monitor reports the same energy usage of fusion V5.3 running on > Mavericks. > I don't know what the usage was in Mountain Lion as I never had a problem > there. > > Any thoughts? Any help? > BTW: one other thing, two days before the problem first occurred, I changed > the fusion settings from 1 cpu to 2 cpu's and re-authorized JAWS for that new > hardware config. I can't believe that is causing a problem, but who knows? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
