Re: 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem

[Thomas Hood]

I wrote:
> 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?

Herm ... I think what you meant was that (a guest OS under)
VMware might be telling the APM BIOS to idle the CPU.
In that case, apm management should be shut off in either
VMware or in the guest OS.