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Windows XP with More than 1GB Very Slow in VMWare

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Recently (or so it seems), our Windows XP virtual machines are incredibly slow, unless I bump them down to 1024GB of RAM. If they are 1024GB or less, they run fine.

I'm not sure what else to add at this point, so any help is appreciated.
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I do not have any to recommend but you might try searching for some system performance monitoring software.  You should be able to find some free ones out there.
What version of VMWare are you using?
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1GB of RAM is a lot of memory to allocate to a virtual machine in general terms. What is the memory utilisation of the VM? I would be surprised if it is using all of it's assigned RAM.

garycase is right in saying that you have probably run out of available resources on the ESX hosts. Memory is usually the first resource to become scarce.

Do you have virtual centre and VMotion DRS setup?
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I think you need to run less virtual machines in order to increase the performance of the other virtual machines that you have running!