[plug] vmware on kde (was telnet on Mandrake)

[Michael Hunt]

> Run the top program in a terminal window

Good advice Garth. Something is obviously  being a resource hog here. I'd
also turn off any additional services you may be running.

Is this a dual processor machine?

> Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> >
> > Hi Michael,
> >     there is 192 meg main memory with 64 allocated within vware
> to win98 and
> > vmware itself using 96 meg.  Ran ok, if somewhat slower than my K6-1/200
> > windows machine when i was running redhat5.2 with windowmaker.  Now its
> > extreemly slow, as is anything running under kde.  Is it
> possible there is
> > something wrong with this setup?  Are there some simple
> benchmarks that can run
> > under, say console, in a terminal under kde and windowmaker in
> order to see
> > where the problem lies?  Also are you using kde or another
> window manager?

I am running Gnome with enlightenment and Netscape and everything is hunky
dory. Since youre machine is higher spec. then mine I would say that this is
not a hardware issue (but I am running an Intel processor not an AMD)

Have you installed the latest version of vmware and the linux tools that go
with it?

Michael Hunt