Re: 2.6.18 is problematic in VMware

From: S.ÃaÄlar Onur
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 03:21:37 EST


31 Eki 2006 Sal 16:06 tarihinde, Mark Lord ÅunlarÄ yazmÄÅtÄ:
> My experience with VMware on several recent processors (mostly P-M family)
> is that it crawls unless I force this first:
> echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate
>
> So I use a wrapper script around VMware (workstation) to save max_cstate,
> set it to 1, and restore it again on exit.

Hmm, this seems related to that one[1], without setting max_cstate my
processors has some issues :)

[1] http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7376

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