[opensuse] VMI enabled Kernel for 10.2? Performance issues with VMWare
Hi, I am running SuSE 10.2 under VMWare. The processor load when ideling is very high (20-30%). VMWare support said that I would need a VMI enabled kernel. Is there a rpm that can be downloaded somewhere that contains such a kernel? All kind of other performance tips related to SuSE under VMWare (Fusion) would be great as well. Thanks and greetings Stefen -- Stefan Müller Tel: (+49) (+30) 838 52973 Fax: (+49) (030) 838 4 52973 Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie Deutsche Grammatik Boltzmannstraße 3 D-14195 Berlin http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/ http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/Babel/Interaktiv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 9/29/07, Stefan Müller <stefan.mueller@cl.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
Hi,
I am running SuSE 10.2 under VMWare. The processor load when ideling is very high (20-30%). VMWare support said that I would need a VMI enabled kernel.
Is there a rpm that can be downloaded somewhere that contains such a kernel?
All kind of other performance tips related to SuSE under VMWare (Fusion) would be great as well.
Thanks and greetings
10.3 BETA3/RC1/Final comes with VMI kernel. 10.2 does not. Get a 10.3 for yourself. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"
Alexey Eremenko wrote:
10.3 BETA3/RC1/Final comes with VMI kernel. 10.2 does not. Get a 10.3 for yourself.
Okay. I played with a 10.3 alpha version and decided not to upgrade, since there are a lot of changes, I do not have the time to deal with (new LaTeX, different emacs integration, ...). Is there a way to get this into 10.2? I looked for the kernell of the day, but this is dated August, so the VMI might not be in there. Best wishes Stefan -- Stefan Müller Tel: (+49) (+30) 838 52973 Fax: (+49) (030) 838 4 52973 Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie Deutsche Grammatik Boltzmannstraße 3 D-14195 Berlin http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/ http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/Babel/Interaktiv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 9/29/07, Stefan Müller <stefan.mueller@cl.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
Alexey Eremenko wrote:
10.3 BETA3/RC1/Final comes with VMI kernel. 10.2 does not. Get a 10.3 for yourself.
Okay. I played with a 10.3 alpha version and decided not to upgrade, since there are a lot of changes, I do not have the time to deal with (new LaTeX, different emacs integration, ...). Is there a way to get this into 10.2? I looked for the kernell of the day, but this is dated August, so the VMI might not be in there.
Best wishes
Getting VMI to work with 10.2 will require big kernel changes. You can try building your own custom kernel, if you so wish (hard way). Or just download 10.3. (easy way). Since you're working with VMware, it's safe to experiment with new OSes, such as openSUSE 10.3 - it won't interfere with your current job, and can be done in spare time. I know that 10.3 is a new OS, and has many changes, so: By the time being - keep using 10.2 for production use, and suffer some performance loss, plus experiment with 10.3, to see how-to adapt it to your current job. Overall: openSUSE 10.3 is great OS. One of the best OSes I have worked with. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"
All kind of other performance tips related to SuSE under VMWare (Fusion) would be great as well.
1. If you rebuild your guest SUSE kernel, build it with 100HZ timer. It may improve performance under virtual environments. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
All kind of other performance tips related to SuSE under VMWare (Fusion) would be great as well.
Tip 2. Give your SUSE guest more RAM - at least 256 of RAM is minimum. 512 MB is better. But this would require 1GB or more Host (Mac). Tip 3. Do NOT use guest SMP - assign only 1 CPU to guest, because of problems with SMP implementations it usually lowers performance, unless you do multi-tasking work in guest. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sep 29 2007 07:21, Stefan Müller wrote:
I am running SuSE 10.2 under VMWare. The processor load when ideling is very high (20-30%). VMWare support said that I would need a VMI enabled kernel.
Check that your host RTC is available. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Check that your host RTC is available.
What does this mean and how do I do this? Thanks and greetings Stefan -- Stefan Müller Tel: (+49) (+30) 838 52973 Fax: (+49) (030) 838 4 52973 Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie Deutsche Grammatik Boltzmannstraße 3 D-14195 Berlin http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/ http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/Babel/Interaktiv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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