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| From: | Qiangning Hong <hongqn@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] vmware guest os timer extremely slow | ||
| Date: | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:14:02 | ||
| Message-Id: | 43318569.1010703@gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] vmware guest os timer extremely slow by Richard Fish |
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| 1 | Richard Fish wrote: |
| 2 | > The problem is probably because VMWare uses the processor TSC counter |
| 3 | > for timing, the rate of which varies with the processor frequency. |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > The following works for me on a pentium-m 2.13ghz system: |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > 1. Add "processor.max_cstate=1" to your kernel boot options. |
| 8 | > 2. If you are running cpufreqd, stop it with "/etc/init.d/cpufreqd stop" |
| 9 | > 3. Do "echo performance >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" |
| 10 | > 4. Run VMWare. |
| 11 | [...] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | I add the processor.max_cstate=1 to the boot options and add the rule |
| 14 | entry in /etc/cpufreqd.conf according to your post, and it works! Thank |
| 15 | you very much! |
| 16 | |
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