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    SubjectRe: 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem
    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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