Cob, a quick question :)

I'm up and running now Cob, not quite the same as your setup but it seems to work for now!
I've got two Ubuntu VM's with one smp client each and a winSMP client running to take up the slack, what do you reckon? is this going to hold you off for a bit:) I'm only on 300 fsb, 2.7Ghz for now, I'll be upping that later:)

You will probably get me anyway, I'm away next week and I will probaly turn the rig not on for that time:( it's a bit fresh to let it go on alone. there will be no one here with a clue how to fix it if it starts misbehaving.
 
If all 4 cores are maxed then you'll likely be able to hold me off.

Tho I don't see any point in running the winSMP client if you've got 2 VM's running. I'd just run an extra linuxSMP client on each of them, unless you're hitting memory limits.
 
2gb would be tight.

I'd also see what running just WinSMP clients offers if you're only going to run a single linuxSMP client per VM. I'm not sure if the VM overheads are worth it for a single client.
 
With a C2D I was getting much better PPD with a linux 64bit client in VM thanthe Win SMP client, I assume that with two C2D's it would still hold true, I need the two VM's to use all four cores. I didn't worry about the 4% slack running on the C2D but now it's more like 8% I thought I should use it :)
(heresy) I might even try something else, like Muon again:D (/heresy)
 
Yip use the slack. My fourth linuxSMP client is taking up the 8% slack here. It might seriously reduce the cache available for the other three clients, but it's worth it.

And yeah the two CPU limit in VMWare is a PITA. Things would be so must easier if they allowed four.

What's your RAM allocation for VMWare and each VM?
 
That doesn't leave you much to play with. It's the main reason i went native after dropping from 4gb to 2gb.
 
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