Trying to figure out why so slow...

I upgraded to Parallels 5 this week and my system is much slower than before. I have a MacBook Pro 15" with 4GB of ram. I run this on two monitors, parallels runs XP in full screen on the external monitor. I have the system set to 2GB as I do use some memory hungry programs. Everything I run in OSX while parallels is running is native (iTunes, mail, address book, and safari is the most I will have running at once).

Odd thing is: processor usage will be at a reasonable level (say, 15-20%) but the mac, both XP and OSX (Snow Leopard) is moving at a crawl. No programs running in XP. Any steps to diagnose this problem? I'll be happy to do what I need to do to get you the information. I am a mac newbie, but if you tell me what info you need I can get it.

Thanks,

Tyler

 

Can you provide problem report ID? Please,

1. Have your VM running.
2. Go to Help->Report a problem menu
3. Send problem report, wait till system replies with problem report ID.
4. Write problem report ID here.

The problem report contains logs and some details about your VM configuration, that should help understand the issue.

Thank you in advance.

 

Id 883837

I've been out of town, sorry for the delay. I sent an error report just now, ID 88837.

Thanks,

Tyler

 

Oops. The subject line was correct, but the body of the last post. 883837.

Thanks!

 

Same problem.

Windows XP running completely lethargic, even when starting from bootcamp.

Performance dropped after upgrading from 5 Beta to 5.0

Now very tempted to downgrade

 

Same problem as well. It looks like the mouse is hiccuping. Very long pauses between mouse events. This gives a feeling of general slowness...

 

Turn off application and profile sharing

My Win7 VM on my MacBook Pro was painfully slow after upgrading to v5. At first I thought it was the 3D acceleration insisting on using 128MB (1/2 of my 256MB on board) but it turns out as soon as I opened up the VM Preferences and turned off the applicaiton sharing and profile sharing it was fast again. I still have 3D turned on and set to 128MB and all is well now. Try that.

 

I find that Parallels conflicts with Spotlight. I turn off Spotlight completely when running Parallels, this helps a great deal.