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So, I have MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019):
- Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i9
- Memory: 16GB 2400 MHz DDR4
I am using Win10 in VMware VM:
- VMWare Fusion 11.1.0
- Windows 10
In VM, I am using Visual Studio 2019 along with other necessary tools along.
I am struggling to find a decent config for VM such that both my Mac and VM runs smooth. Currently, Windows is sluggish and feels like Pentium 2/3 age where I need to wait for seconds before call to action happens.
I have tried:
- 8/6/4 processors for VM
- 4/6/7/8 GB memory for VM
When VM is running, Mac Activity monitor consistently stays around 14 GB memory. (memory looks loaded). CPU though looks fine.
Seems either I am missing some config or the right combination.
Thoughts/Suggestions?
Do ask if any more/other info helps.
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Probably not the answer you are looking for, but... have you tried another VM?
e.g. VirtualBox.
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Yeah, wouldn't help. It's a work laptop and licensed VMWare software.
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if u have licensed vmware then u can raise a support ticket and maybe they will suggest something for your troubles...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Strange thing, believe this kind of setup is common and not much of already existing support or discussions around (in web).
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I'm running a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM using 1 processor core and 8192 MB memory for the VM and it works pretty snappy most of the time. I'm running the same chip as you but I have 32 GB of memory.
I ran this exact VM on an older Mac with the same settings and only 16GB memory on an older chip. The VM on the new Mac is slightly better than the old machine but really "Just Noticeable Difference"
Running VMWare Fusion 11.5.6, updated recently when it was available.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: using 1 processor core and 8192 MB memory
1, that sounds too less, but I will give a try with 2 processor - 8GB memory. thanks!
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2.3 Ghz ... haven't run less than 3.4 on my main machine in years. Also, Browsers are not your friend if you like to have a lot of tabs (i.e. processes) open. The GPU plays a role in other than just graphics; more is better. Overall, it would seem you are under-powered for the task at hand.
(Your SSD / HD configuration matters too if all your activity is on your swap drive).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: 2.3 Ghz ... haven't run less than 3.4 on my main machine in years.
Well, thats the company laptop config.
Gerry Schmitz wrote: (Your SSD / HD configuration matters too if all your activity is on your swap drive).
Neh, office laptop. Single hard disk and nothing of swap drive work.
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..but when I entered I could not see anyone.
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Sounds like the sort of thing I wouldn't want to get entangled with.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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You just need to tell them to stop looking at you!
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This is a free state!
Not at all, you must follow Fermi-Dirac laws.
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Nobody asked for seconds.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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...It was open Mike night! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Some of us are eating - have a heart.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Two cannibals were eating a clown when one of them said “Does this taste funny to you?”
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Did you have a gut feeling about this or just planned to cut and run if things didn't work out?
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Live and let liver, I say.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Live and let liver,
Shouldn't that be "Live and Let Die"?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Live and let liver, I say.
with some fava beans and a nice Chianti Ffffffffff
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Not so easy, it takes brains to cook that particular dish!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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... well, on android smartphones, is getting out of hands ! I think that you need at least decent 32Gb for the OS to run stable with Chrome as a browser, and even 64Gb if you want it to last a bit. My current smartphone is running really well, but has "only" 16Gb memory. 13,8Gb are eaten by Android itself (7Gb) and other mandatory apps from the Google ecosystem which I have no use of (about 7Gb as well). The remaining 2,2Gb are barely sufficient to allow the smartphone to run properly, since android heavily relies on swapping to run.
A google play update usually takes up additional 100 to 200Mb, and that happens every other month. At that pace, I can throw away my smartphone in about 4 months due to lack of ROM.  (And yes, I moved everything movable to a SD card).
I wonder how it is possible that there are still smartphones sold with 8Gb or 16Gb memory, knowing that this is not sufficient to even use the bare smartphone after a few months... And the fact that everything relies on built-in memory instead of SD is just insane.
Now that I think about it, it is actually similar to a laptop I bought for my son last year with a 128Gb SSD with the OS and a 1Tb disk for data. Windows takes up 123Gb (!!!) by now on the SSD drive, and since some programs insist on putting at least minimum installation files under program files on that same disk, I am now more or less forced to upgrade this disk to a 500Gb SSD. 
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I have a 3 GB ram phone (with 32 GB internal storage), it never happened that I crossed the 2 GB usage...
I do not use Chrome, but Firefox. Use Email, WhatsApp, Waze, Gmail and phone as phone in daily basis...
At his very moment I use 60% of the 3 GB and 22% of the 32 GB...
You may investigate the actual usage (per-app)...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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