Slowness on Mac Using Parallels

[mjr161]

I have a beefed up Mac Pro with Parallels installed giving 3gb of ram to my VM. For some reason using Parallels HEM is really laggy going from tab to tab, doing filters, etc. Using VMWare Fusion HEM was lightening fast, so I'm not sure what the problem is.

Are there any others seeing this issue? Has anyone figured out how to fix this, or what was causing it to be so laggy? Unfortunately I can't go back to Fusion because of some other configuration issues with my VM... I'm pretty stuck with Parallels for now.

[fozzy71]

Hopefully netsrak will see this thread and can offer some advice. I don't know anything about MACs, but this is what I would suggest to a PC user.


I would suggest you do the majority of the things in this thread: http://www.holdemmanager.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=11194

Some of the most important things, imo:

- Remove the WinnerName, WinnerCards and WinnerWon from the Hands View Column Selector
- Turning off logging and deleting existing logs
- Vacuum/Full/Analyze, then Reindex - http://www.holdemmanager.net/faq/afm...aspx?faqid=163
- SQL Tuning Wizard - see below*
- Defrag last and make sure you stop the postgresql service before you defrag. I personally use Defraggler.
- Do a Cold Boot (Shut Down > Start) before you use HM again

*SQL Tuning:

1)Go to Start > Programs > PostgreSQL 8.3 and look for Application Stack Builder.

Steps 2 - 7 are obsolete and unnecessary.

8) At the end of the installation, launch the Application Stack Builder.
9) Select your PostgreSQL Database Server and click Next.
10) Expand AddOns and select EnterpriseDB Tuning Wizard.
11) Download the tuning wizard by selecting your country and continuing.
12) Continue through the end of installation and launch the EnterpriseDB Tuning Wizard.
13) Select your PostgreSQL Database server and click Next.
14) Under Server Utilization, select Mixed and click Next.
15) Continue through the installation of the tuning wizard.

PostgreSQL memory usage has now been configured specifically for your computer's specifications and performance should be improved.

[mjr161]

Actually the db is hosted on another machine on the network, not this one. The VM (XP Install) is brand new, and works perfectly fine with Fusion run the same way on the same db. I even tested a new db installed with postgres on VM itself (local postgres installation), and it acted the same.

I'm simply convinced it's just something mechanically different with Parallels than Fusion, like it runs .Net applications a slightly different way than Fusion does. I would hate for it to be one simple setting in the VM config that simply turns off the lag, which is why I created this thread to see if anyone else figured out how to fix it.

Fozzy how can you be a graphics guy and no nothing about macs? Tsk Tsk

[fozzy71]

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Fozzy how can you be a graphics guy and no nothing about macs? Tsk Tsk

I could never afford them, and now I am an old guy set in my ways.