Hello,
I wanted to ask if this is normal behavior - I configured VMWare Server to fit all VM memory into RAM, not to page anything out, created a FreeBSD virtual machine, then when I try to do something like download FreeBSD source via cvsup the vmware-vmx.exe process has an average of 800 page faults per second. Same thing with just about any disk-bound activity. Also, task manager shows that kernel time just about matches user time (red line basically follows the green one), which also seems a bit odd.
I've got 2GB of RAM in the server, VMWare has been given 1536MB and right now this FreeBSD machine is the only one running with 512MB allocated to it. The server shows over a gig of memory free. Why is vmware-vmx.exe page faulting so much? I have antivirus installed on the server (NOD32), but I've already tried shutting it down to make sure that it doesn't interfere with VMWare, no effect. The vmware-vmx.exe process is the only thing consuming CPU cycles (this server has dual Xeons, so 4 logical CPUs), and the usage is about 4% when the csup process is running and downloading the source. Would appreciate any help on this.