The guests are all single core and nothing over a meg of RAM.
Free memory runs 3-4 gig consistently for the host.
I think some housekeeping or something is happening within vmware fusion. It seems to "time slice" between the VM's it manages. Way way back with version 3 of Fusion there was a setting to optimize VM performance over the host OS performance. Is there anything similar or hidden today for this?
I have several process monitors running that show that the CPU total usage is low but I appear IO bound. This was the main reason for the investment in the SSD for running the VM's.
This has cured the IO bound issue but now it appears that I am somehow bound within the confines of Fusion. Meaning that while the Laptop is not at all taxed memory, disk or CPU wise, things are still seriously throttled when running multiple VM's under Fusion.
I let fusion choose the performance settings or the Virtualization type and I have disabled 3D acceleration in most VM's. So my question now is, are there any optimizations I can try with the VM's themselves or with Fusion itself to get it to be a bit more snappy?
Thanks
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