From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Mar 31 16:41:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2FD337B6EE for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:41:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA35417; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:41:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:41:41 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200004010041.QAA35417@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: nsayer@kfu.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware locks FreeBSD 4.0 solid References: <38E3FB31.3DD4D170@sftw.com> <14564.53252.962047.551231@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200003311728.JAA29464@apollo.backplane.com> <14565.2133.162680.554248@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org :To follow up: Taking MFS out of the picture seems to clear up the :problems. I've been beating the heck out of it for a while now, and :the system is still stable. Excellent diagnosis, Matt! : :VMware seems to look at the TMPDIR env variable, so I'll be making :sure to set that to /var/tmp before running VMware ;-) : :I wonder if they just started doing this (mmapping a large file in :$TMDIR) in 2.0? I was running a demo of 1.x with no problems a few :months back... : :Thanks, : :Drew : :------------------------------------------------------------------------------ :Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin It isn't really MFS's fault, and I am sure there are other situations that will lock up the same way. The issue is that we are getting a low-memory deadlock. Perhaps VMWare is wiring too many pages or something like that... I don't know yet. I think Nick's problem is different from the one you were encountering. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message