Re: 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem

Thomas Hood (jdthood@mail.com)
27 Jan 2002 21:37:40 -0500

> The keyboard rate one is curious. The vmware one I can easily
> believe is caused by Vmware switching in/out of OS's without
> managing the APM state of the processor (and leaving it in
> powersave)

APM idling is done if apm_cpu_idle() is called, and then if
DELTA(current->times.tms_stime)
-------------------------------
DELTA(jiffies)
is greater than the idle threshold of 0.95. Could that ratio be
affected by VMware? If so, how?

--
Thomas




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