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Subject: Re: 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> I've got an idea - if you were saying that ping host->guest is fine,
> but other way around it does not work. Can you apply
> ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-ws-1455-update5.tar.gz
> to your VMware 3.x? Stock vmware-3.x modules use netif_rx() instead
> of netif_rx_ni(), and so network bottom half was not run under some
> conditions.

Applied patch. Still same problem.

On host
	modprobe apm idle_threshold=100, guest ping lo, no problem
	modprobe apm idle_threshold=99,  guest ping lo, slow

Jeff.

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