Jürgen Keil wrote: > What kind of cpu is used on the host OS? A dual core AMD cpu perhaps? > > In this case, a wild guess is that it could be the AMD TSC drift issue with > dual core cpus: > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/msg/ce39f46758e5e539?hl=en& > > As a workaround, try to use the linux equivalent of "pbind" on the vmware > process, so that the vmware vm always stays on the same core. > This message posted from opensolaris.org
This is my mighty Maxdata laptop which has a "Pentium 4 Mobile" (=one core which executes only one thread, turning-off power management etc. does not help) ... but the problem occurs on a wide range of systems (incl. Pentium 4 with HyperThreading (e.g. two threads per core)), AMD-X2 (dual-core) and single-core AMD chips) - and usually when the host OS is doing some swapping... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org