Cloudera in VM player is really slow

olracmarques — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:23:19 GMT

Hello,

I am a newbie to Cloudera, so give me some slack

I assigned 4 cores and 8GB to my Cloudera VM in VMware players. It seemed to be working fine. After several suspends, restarts, and queries, the system becomes really slow and I cannot pinpoint why. I am not doing anything special, simple queries to small 100k tables. I even reinstalled the VM, restoring its speed, but with later degradation.

I was never able to get Cloudera Manager working, it just stays there.

How can I diagnose what is making my system so slow? I am running this in an i7 8th gen with 16GB RAM

Note: I usually get a message of an unresponsive script like , "Script: http://quickstart.cloudera:888…ery.nicescroll.7958d4c833ae.js:1990"

Thank you for your inputs.

Cheers.

Re: Cloudera in VM player is really slow

GangWar — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:34:33 GMT

@olracmarques Below community thread might help.

https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/What-is-the-minimum-system-requirement-to-setup-pseudo/td-p/21121

But I would strongly suggest to start with 10GB RAM at least for using Cloudera Manager in VM.

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