Hi all,
I am running Vmware server 28343 on a Dell D610 notebook(PM-1.6GHz, 1G ram) and both the host and the guest OS are Redhat ES 4, all runs with single CPU kernel. I found that the guest OS will lose about 20s every minute. I have read vmware_timekeeping and tried almost every thing but none works.
What I have tried are:
1. I turn the timeTracker on and chang the kernel boot parameters by adding clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic to grub.conf. After reboot I see following msg in vmware.log
Jul 26 19:14:15: vmx| TimeTrackerStats behind by 54652824 cycles (34240 us); running at 100%; 0 stops, 0 giveups
Jul 26 19:14:15: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 3051 ints, 305.04/sec, 307.43 avg, 1000.15 req; 43043 tot, 140029 req; 1098 loprg, 1147 rtry
2. Change the value of #define HZ 1000 to 100 and recompiled the kernel and I see the msg in vmware.log changed to
Jul 26 19:17:05: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 288 ints, 28.80/sec, 39.19 avg, 100.00 req; 3136 tot, 8000 req; 36 loprg, 42 rtry
Jul 26 19:17:15: vmx| TimeTrackerStats behind by 65651289 cycles (41130 us); running at 100%; 0 stops, 0 giveups
Jul 26 19:17:15: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 284 ints, 28.40/sec, 38.00 avg, 100.00 req; 3420 tot, 9000 req; 36 loprg, 42 rtry
Jul 26 19:17:05: vmx| TimeTrackerStats behind by 65651289 cycles (41130 us); running at 100%; 0 stops, 0 giveups
Jul 26 19:17:05: vmx| TimeTrackerStats timer0 285 ints, 28.49/sec, 37.05 avg, 100.00 req; 3705 tot, 10001 req; 36 loprg, 42 rtry
3. disable CPU power management by adding apm=idle_threshold=100 to grub.conf and seems nothing changed.
I have spent a whole day working on this issue but it still puzzle me. Do you have any other solution on this issue?Thanks a lot!