[gentoo-user] VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300

[Michael W. Holdeman]

I purchased a new Dell 9300 to replace teh 8600 I have been using. The lap is 
nearly identical to teh 8600. When running VMWare with w2k it was unbearably 
slow. Through some googeling and VMWare's forums I found that teh cpu kept 
going to sleep state when running vmware. So the best solution I found so far 
is to write a bash script as below:

#!/bin/bash 
echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate 
vmwarearts 
echo 8 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate 

I named it vmware_script and placed it in /etc/vmware, and execute it to run 
vmware. It works great as long as I execute as root :
chmod o+w /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate
So that as a user you can execute the max_cstate command. 

This works but whenever you boot the laptop you have to su to root and execute 
teh chmod again or the state will not be enforced and vmware is deathly slow.

Does anyone here have a better solution??

Mike
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Michael W. Holdeman


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