ZoltánS
Bit poster
Hi,
I've noticed that resume time of my Parallels 4 with the Windows 7 installed on it varies wildly: it can be horrible, like 5 minutes and lightning fast like 10 seconds with MS Word started as well.
When the startup is slow I can see that the hard disk is used heavily: I can hear the disk head seeking all the time and in the activity monitor the average data read is about 2MB/sec. And I can't tell why it's like that.
Yesterday I blamed other processes using the same disk so that concurrent read/write made that HDD a bottleneck. However today morning I made sure no other applications make any serious disk usage, still my first attempt to resume the Windows 7 was damn slow. I monitored the disk usage with 'fs_usage' command and couldn't really see any other process in the logs. After that I could suspend and resume Parallels in 10 secs.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Zoltan
One more thing: The guest OS is a fresh install, with only an MS Office on it (what else?
).
I've noticed that resume time of my Parallels 4 with the Windows 7 installed on it varies wildly: it can be horrible, like 5 minutes and lightning fast like 10 seconds with MS Word started as well.
When the startup is slow I can see that the hard disk is used heavily: I can hear the disk head seeking all the time and in the activity monitor the average data read is about 2MB/sec. And I can't tell why it's like that.
Yesterday I blamed other processes using the same disk so that concurrent read/write made that HDD a bottleneck. However today morning I made sure no other applications make any serious disk usage, still my first attempt to resume the Windows 7 was damn slow. I monitored the disk usage with 'fs_usage' command and couldn't really see any other process in the logs. After that I could suspend and resume Parallels in 10 secs.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Zoltan
One more thing: The guest OS is a fresh install, with only an MS Office on it (what else?
).