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Subject: Re: 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:

> Ok, I cannot see this one, I have no APM enabled on my boxes. Sorry.

If I set apm idle off, vmware guest os "ping localhost" works fine.

> As I never saw this with vmware 2 (even not on 2.4.18-pre7) I would
> say version 3 has a real problem somewhere.

Never had any problem with vmware3 until pre7.

Try to test vmware2 on pre7 with apm cpu_idle enabled. I think you'll see
the same problem. Again, pre6 with apm cpu_idle enabled works fine.

Jeff

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