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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:12:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        "George V. Balis" <gbalis@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Damn slow startup
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203051011000.26829-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C8506D8.BBB9CE3F@mindspring.com>

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or tell teh config it is a 386 cpu as well as a '686
that will force it to emulate those very slowly done instructins so that
they are actually done faster :-)


On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Run -stable.  VMWare takes a very long time to emulate
> certain locking primitives, for some reason.
> 
> -- Terry
> 
> "George V. Balis" wrote:
> > 
> > Hi everybody
> > 
> > I recently updated through cvsup a 4.5 stable FreeBSD running on Vmware.
> > I followed the instructions from the handbook building both the world
> > and the GENERIC kernel. When I finally rebooted, It takes almost 2-3
> > hours to boot being extremely slow. I never really let it finish booting
> > and started doing it all over again. Does this have smth to do with the
> > WITNESS kernel option? If no do you have any idea as to what might be
> > wrong.
> > 
> > George
> > 
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