v3 idle processor usage nearly doubled

[rhind]

The only thing I've really noticed so far with v3 is that my idle processor usage has gone from 6% to 10% which is quite a big increase. No noticable difference in performance, but 10% now seems very high when the VM is doing nothing.

This is an image-based VM of XP SP 2 running on a iMac 2.33GHz w/3Gb RAM. (I've assigned 1Gb and 16Mb VRAM to the VM).

Have done nothing else to the VM, Parallels 3 is just using more processor usage.

Anyone know where there is a download for build 3188?

Cheers

Russell

 

[dkp]

Anyone know where there is a download for build 3188?

You should be able to follow the link to 4124 except change 4124 to 3188. I installed the new Fusion Beta 4 today and the cpu usage dropped to the point that it looks like it's not even running. I fired up Pinball in demo mode to see if it would kick it up a bit and it did but not by much. I'm still backing up my Parallels vm's so don't know yet how it's going to do.

 

[rhind]

Thanks but I've just tried that and it re-directs you back to the main download page (unless I've got the link wrong). The 4124 build has spaces in the filename (%20), not sure if 3188 did or not.

I have a Fusion VM set up so will try and get beta 4 and see how that works. If Fusion has unity, dual-core support and low processor usage (and similar/better performance than parallels) then it will do for what I want.

Cheers

Russell