Re: Pentest lab box 16 gigs of ram

[Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com>]

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macubergeek wrote:

> would 64 bit Ubuntu be a better idea?

Unquestionably! Ubuntu will have MUCH less O/S overhead, VMware will run A LOT
faster, I/O will be more efficient, and it will make better use of available RAM.

If you can spare a few bucks and upgrade to a quad-core CPU, VMware will be even
happier. (And so will you!!)

Oh, one note about VMware on large RAM systems... it can take FOREVER to shut
down the system. I have a ThinkPad with 8GB RAM, and VMware can use up to 6GB of
it. If I suspend 3 or 4 of the VMs and exit workstation, I/O utilization goes
way up for many many minutes. However, if I shut down the system shortly after
exiting workstation, the system can run at 100% I/O utilization (I have a 2 HDD
hardware striped 1TB RAID volume) for up to 30 minutes before it actually starts
to run the init shutdown sequence. All that time is VMware writing cache to disk!

Jon
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