First thing I'd be asking is 'What else is that VMWare server doing?' If there are dozens (or hundreds) of other VMs on there it's gonna slow down no matter how solid the machinery underneath is.
-Deke On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Paul G. Allen wrote: > I've never dealt with VMWare until recently so I'm not familiar with it. I > think there's a few on the list that are. > > I asked the admin at our data center to compile a new CentoOS 5 kernel for one > of our systems so that it would support a module I need for AVG. He got it > done, but it took him 5 hours to do it. He said half the time was waiting for > it to do its thing, the other half was actual work. He did not compile the > module I need (that's for me to do). > > I've compiled many kernels and on the slower machines it takes about 20 > minutes. Why does it take so long with a VMWare hosted virtual machine? > > TIA, > > PGA > -- > Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE > Network Administrator > Greenest Host > www.greenesthost.com > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
