3.0 Overall Performance

[saki2048]

Hi,

is it just me or has the performance degraded severely compared against the 2.5 version, especially when it comes to disk performance?

Comparing against the same copy of a virtual machine (prior updating to 3.0) on my MBP I'd say that 3.0 has lost approx 30% compared between the versions.

TO test this I've used the same external FireWire Disk on both machines and duplicated the local subdirectory containing nearly 2GB data.

brgds
Sascha

 

[simplicity]

What kind of numbers do you see if you run top in a terminal?

I see about the same numbers, but following someone else's suggestion, I turned off USB, and now Parallels eats about 25% when Windows is idle. Much better!