[syslinux] CPU usage while at syslinux boot prompt

Bishop bishopolis at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 08:16:05 PST 2008


Dag Wieers wrote:
> Today I was contacted by a VMware colleague asking me why my test systems 
> were using almost 100% CPU while waiting for a prompt. He was used to this 
> behaviour for DOS guests :)
They didn't fix that after DOS -- one of my jobs is at a shop with many, 
many, many win2k VMs, and we definitely noticed the same kind of 
behaviour when they're waiting.  And a new policy was born.

 - bish




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