> 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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