Re: Performance problems with VMPlayer 5.0 and RHEL

After a lot of investigation and re-testing, the solution to this seems to have been found.

1. Disabled Intel Speedstep in the BIOS.
2. Added the following to /etc/vmware/config (after this, performance was much improved, but not perfect)

prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "true"

prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100"

MemTrimRate=0

sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"

mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"

   3. Disabled khugepaged

echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/redhat_transparent_hugepage/enabled

Hopefully this will help someone else who may get a similar problem.