I just really wanna know why it eats cpu periodically even there is no vmware running,
this simply kill my battery power for no reason,
I have to manually shutdown VMware Authorization Service for peace :<
iirc, i have seen vmware-authd running amok a long time ago.
would you please provivide some more details about cpu usage?
(vmstat output, screenshots , whatever)
that looks very similar to what i have seen at that time
hope there is a solution for this problem,
I seen some posts have same question like this on board but nobody answer them
Still happening in the final version of Workstation 7.
Not good.
Love to hear from VMware on the issue and what they are doing about it.
if possible don't run the vmauthd-service at all
it is a resource hog - it scans for non-existing registry entries several times a second - fills the eventlog with alerts and so on
I have seen some registry hacks to reduce this useless activity but I don't find them anymore - if you want to search yourself see in the ws7 beta -section
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it gets slightly better if you set
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib
Disable performance Counters to 0
the authdservice still reads this key 30 times in one second - then it pauses for 5 seconds and starts again
- but now at least it is successful
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Yes its still happening. Just realized my notebook battery drain because of this. I cant remember for how long this bug exists, but it should broke the 2 years mark by now.
We have a fix, will show up in the next point release of Workstation.
Great news. Many thanks for the update.
What about VMWare Player? Same problem shows up in v3.0.1. Is this going to be fixed as well?
yep.
The fix is included in the Release Candidate, now available from the beta portal. Please try it out and let us know if it resolves the problem for you.
Problem still exists in the latest WS7.1, authd eats up to 20% CPU on my dual-core laptop. Very annoying and defeats the processor voltage scaling. Shorten my battery life from 6 hours to 4 hours.
Take a look at my post here, following the steps in the MS KB article resolved the issue for me.
Great. Thanks. The trick works!
Hi,
I'm not sure what the problem is but I can't access the post linked below (the one with the workaround in MS KB article).
I have VMWare 7.1.4 on Win7 x64 and the problem is still there (sigh). vmware-authd.exe eats both CPU (periodically spiking to 10%) and memory (when left 'unattended' will eat few GB in a few weeks).
Needless to say, this is extremely annoying. Do we really need this service? If so, what for? When can we expect the fix?
I bought Workstation 8 hoping this problem would finally be solved and it's still not. Is there at least a solution pending? I've already done the registry tweak to no avail. 15% cpu spike every 5 seconds from a fresh boot with no VMs or even VMWare open. This problem has been around for years so I'm surprised it still hasn't been addressed.