Bruce Hands Veteran  Posts: 118 Joined: 12/25/2003 Location: Butte, MT  User Profile | Fellow Mac users: I altered some of the switches in the Parallels 'Virtual Machine Configuration' settings and it made a huge difference in my overall performance and stability today for the first time in several weeks. Today I left my Mac for 3+ hours with Parallels running my Boot Camp Windows virtually and left VT 5.0 open and connected to RT data feed. The machine was connected to a second monitor and I left ten floating charts open in a 1 minute time setting. When I returned my Mac 'woke' from the sleep mode as it would normally do and I checked VT with the second monitor and all ten charts and total functionality was intact with both OSes. Bottom line, I reduced the hardware access in the virtual machine and things stabled up immediately. Below are the steps I made changes to everything else is set by default. Reduced from two to one processor, reduced memory from 50% to 25%, optimized performance for the Mac OS X applications. Below are the tabs and setting changes I made. Bruce H 1) Virtual Machine Configuration: General Tab: Name: name of your Boot Camp or Virtual Machine. Processors: 1 Main Memory: 25% of Mac total 2) Virtual Machine Configuration: Options tab: Check 'x' Enable Adaptive Hypervisior Leave blank Enable AutoCompress Check 'x' Tune for Windows speed Optimize performance for Mac OS X applications Power consumption Better Performance | |
