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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:03:49 +0100
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem
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On 28 Jan 2002 06:25:05 -0500
Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 05:14, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If so then I suspect vmware should be issuing APM cpu busy calls itself
> 
> Do you see a difference between VMware and other processes
> in their susceptibility to this problem?  If VMware runs
> slowly because it gets scheduled in while the CPU is idle
> and the apm driver fails to busyize the CPU, won't the same
> thing happen for other processes?  If so, then our idle 
> handling is fundamentally broken.  If not, then what makes
> VMware special?

Maybe it's just broken. I have some strange problems with hanging vmware 3
(reproducable) on a SMP machine. On an equal machine vmware 2 runs 
flawlessly. There is no APM or the like involved, both under 2.4.18-pre7.
I just don't trust it.

Regards,
Stephan


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