Had that problem too, and it's not the first time VMware was hit. My "tune for vmware" script has grown to three lines over the years: echo never > /sys/ke

Had that problem too, and it's not the first time VMware was hit. My "tune for vmware" script has grown to three lines over the years: echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compaction_proactiveness # default 20