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I expect rsc might expand on this, but there are some Pentium functions
which are not efficiently emulated by Vmware, which Plan 9 happens to
use a lot. This will make some contribution to the slowdown.


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256MB.  The plan 9 vm is configured for 96MB.  The machine has a
700MHz PIII.  Windows and Linux hum along nicely in vmware.

paurea@dei.inf.uc3m.es writes:
> How much memory do you have?. I have found running other os's under
> vmware that there is a high memory threshold under which the system
> is too slow to be usable.
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