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I recently upgraded my main machine to have 128 GB of RAM in order to improve my guests' performance by granting them more memory. Yet, on the contrary, they seem to run more slowly after the upgrade.

When I launch programs in a VM, I'm often launching them twice under the impression that the program didn't actually launch in the VM. Some applications in the VM take 10 seconds or more to launch (e.g. Microsoft SSMS).

Same for VMware Workstation itself. It's taking up to 10 seconds before the Workstation application window appears. I very often find myself launching it twice because nothing happens for seconds after launching the program.

I configured VMware Workstation to not use swapped memory. This is the only manual config setting I apply:

mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
devices.hotplug = "FALSE"