VMWare and HTTP.SYS
For a while I’ve been wondering why my computer is so slow… and sometimes seemed to just freeze up for no apparent reason. I always just chalked it up to thrashing before, but this system has 2 gig of RAM so that really didn’t seem likely.
Today, I ran across this article by Mark Russinovich and it seems like he’s found the problem.
An interaction between HTTP.SYS and VMWare’s virtualization drivers.
I turned off the HTTP.SYS driver on my system, and so far it feels better. It could be a placebo, so if I see the performance problems return I’ll post it, but I sure hope I don’t have to.
November 16th, 2005 at 4:08 pm
Were you seeing this with the release verision of VMWare 5 or with the beta? The information posted by Mark seemed to indicate that it was a problem only with the beta.
-Chri
November 18th, 2005 at 8:57 am
Good point, I did have the beta installed.