Idlemax!!!! hardware is not the issue - use the idlemax command: [[2691]] image = C:\IMAGE\c2691.bin.unpacked idlepc = 0x60bb93b8 idlemax = 100 ghostios = True
-------------------------------- www.tmillerjazz.com ________________________________ From: Edgar Mauricio Diaz Orellana <[email protected]> To: John Olsen <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] GNS3 Performance i had similar problem the first time i run GNS3 over my Dell Precision M6500 notebook with Windows 2008r2 enterprice. the main problem was the performance tunning of windows... when it's running on balanced or even economy, it's sooooo slow as my Pentium D 3.0Ghz, and then, i'll put the Performance mode of the notebook, and WOOOW... runs flawless... my second though it's about memory ram of your notebook, maybe you need to put more ram to run all of those routers, taking in advice 12 routers with 256MB on each of them (256*12 ==>3GB and that's just for the routers image, and not for the OS or the GNS3 (dynamips image), so, try to move ahead on x64 and put more ram on this notebook. hope that helps you enough to get fixed your problem my friend. greetings from chile edgar On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:52 PM, John Olsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > You were a big help earlier when it turned out that my old version of XP > and the machine it was on were not really up to the task...now I have > another performance related issue with GNS3. I bought myself two new > machines at the time, a desktop with a 3.3 Ghz i5, and a laptop with a 2.2 > GHz i7. Naturally I installed GNS3 on both, but only really tried it in > earnest on the laptop last week when I had some spare time while on a > contract, eg they ran out of work for me for a few hours. So I started > building the configuration used in the Cisco CCIE book for an MPLS example. > This finished up with 12 routers, ten 3745 and two 7200 where I needed more > interfaces than the smaller routers could do. Once I had it configured up I > found that I was getting some odd errors like non matching duplex on fast > ethernet interfaces that are actually configured to match, and knew from > previous experience that this probably means the machine is struggling a > bit...sure enough, task manager showed that it was running all processors > at 100%. It didn't seem to be an idlepc issue. I tried a few different > values for each of the routers but no improvement. > > So then I shifted the whole configuration over to the desktop, where it > runs fine, the processor load sits down low with only the odd peaks > reaching 25% utilisation. > > Ok, so the machine that was struggling has a slower clock speed, but only > 2/3 slower, surely not enough to make that much difference, and it is an 8 > core machine rather than 4, which should help. But the other main > difference is that the desktop is running a 64 bit version of windows(home > premium) while the laptop is running a 32 bit version, Professional. So do > you guys think that this could be the difference? If so I may as well look > at getting an upgrade for the laptop. Both machines have 8 GB of ram > installed, but I wonder if the laptop gets the full benefit of this with > the 32 bit OS on it? > > regards > John > ______________________________**_________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > > Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out > www.PlatinumPlacement.com > > http://onlinestudylist.com/**mailman/listinfo/ccie_rs<http://onlinestudylist.com/mailman/listinfo/ccie_rs> _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out www.PlatinumPlacement.com http://onlinestudylist.com/mailman/listinfo/ccie_rs _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out www.PlatinumPlacement.com http://onlinestudylist.com/mailman/listinfo/ccie_rs
