I've started to notice when running my VM (unity mode) the Activity Manager shows a rather big CPU load for the VmWare process. Let's say I would be using 20% of my CPU but the process itself would show up to 450% CPU load.
The standard load with just Win 10 and VS 2015 with ReSharper running (idle) would be around 150% (about 10-15% in the OS X activity monitor). Now as soon as I start running a web application & some services this shot up to the previously mentioned 450%, this happens regularly and I notice responsiveness is not optimal most of the time.
After some googling I disabled the windows update service as this has helped for some before (not specifically Windows 10 but was worth a try). However this didn't give the desired results.
I currently gave my VM: 2 cores, 8gb ram, Intel VT-x/EPT enabled, share internet with Mac. I've tried 4 cores before but that didn't seem to change much either. Note this isn't a bootcamp partition, just a VM from scratch.
Running this on a MacBook Pro Retina 15" Mid 2015
- Intel Core i7 2.5 GHz
- 16 Gb RAM
- 512 GB SSD
- AMD Radeon R9 M370X
Is there anyone with the same experiences or any suggestions to improve the responsiveness and speed?