Utilisation and Speed for Workstation seems to be capped

[oaksu]

When running Vmware Workstation, without any other app running, CPU and Speed Utilisation seems to be capped to approx 30% Utilisation at all times.

Is there a way I can change or remove this limitation so Workstation uses more of the CPU when required?

Note: This utilisation does not change whether I open up 1 or more VM's in Workstation.

You can see an image of the utilisation at: https://imgur.com/1oMOqEr.jpg

As soon as utilisation shows i.e. 34%, it drops back below 30% so it looks like there's some 30% limit.

I'm currently running Vmware Workstation on a Windows 10 Pro Version - OS Build: 19041.450

When I took the screen shot, I had 3 VM's running.

[scott28tt]

Host hardware specification?

VM hardware configuration?

[oaksu]

Host Hardware

Dell XPS 15 9570 Core i9 - Disabled Hyperthreading

Processor : Intel Core i9-8950HK 6 x 2.9 - 4.8 GHz, Coffee Lake-H

Graphics adapter : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q - 4096 MB, Core: 1290 MHz, Memory: 7008 MHz, GDDR5, 397.93, Optimus

Memory : 32768 MB, PC4-21300, 19-19-19-43, Dual-Channel

VM Hardware

VM1 - Windows 10

Memory: 11.3GB

Total Processor cores: 6 (Number of processors: 2, Number of cores per processor: 3)

Hard Disk(SCSI): 100GB

VM2 - Ubuntu (Linux)

Memory: 7GB

Total Processor cores: 6 (Number of processors: 2, Number of cores per processor: 3)

Hard Disk(SCSI): 60GB

VM2 - Ubuntu (Linux)

Memory: 3GB

Total Processor cores: 2 (Number of processors: 2, Number of cores per processor: 1)

Hard Disk(SCSI): 40GB

[oaksu · Accepted solution]

Looks like I resolved the issue.

Incase anyone else is having the same issue, following was how I solved it.

After downloading the Dell Power Manager application, I was able to see that the Thermal Management was set to Cool. When I changed that to Ultra Performance or Optimized, the CPU usage went up.