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VMware – Convoluted Guest Freeze Fix…

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on January 20, 2022 by RGJanuary 20, 2022

I had been struggling for some considerable time with guest (Win10) performance issues with VMware – including application (Photoshop CS6) ‘freezing’ for a time, and overall very sluggish responses.. I had found several articles that suggested cause/effect/fix for this, but none really worked.. I made changes to control khugepaged: …………………….. [root@rglinux820 ~]$ echo never | tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag … Continue reading →

Posted in Hacks, kernel, Linux, Opinion, Performance, VMware | Tagged fixes, guset freeze, kcompactd0, transparent_hugepage, vmware | 2 Replies

Kernel 3.7-rc2 – Same fixes as for 3.7-rc1..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on October 22, 2012 by RGOctober 22, 2012

Just updated my test system to 3.7-rc2, and the same patches and ‘workarounds’ are needed for NVIDIA (driver 310.14) and VMware (9.0 with 3.5 patch) as mentioned in my earlier post, for -rc1.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.7.0-rc2 #1 SMP Mon Oct 22 01:58:54 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, VMware | Tagged 3.7-rc1, fixes, kernel, linux, nvidia, patches, vmware, workarounds | Leave a reply
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