Matt, thanks for the followup here.

We built an environment (VMWare Workstation 6.5) to test your scenario here, using your workspace, and didn't have the same performance problems you did (although we didn't have a full set of collected data either). After letting it run several days to get collected data, there was still no noticeable performance problems.

It's good to hear that the VMWare Server upgrade solved the problem.

We have noticed that VMWare sometimes "colors" the results - where the latencies will vary +/- some milliseconds (sometimes as much as 75 or so) based on CPU load. Because of this, running in a Virtual environment isn't really suggested.

- Pete