NTFS 3G slow with VMware

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If you have your vm hosted on a NTFS partition and the mount.ntfs-3g is eating all your CPU power, try to update the NTFS 3G to the last version and add to your .vmx file this config line:

mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

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