From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Mar 31 21:19:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0529637BBBB for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:19:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA05165; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 00:19:43 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA12738; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 00:19:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 00:19:12 -0500 (EST) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Andrew Gallatin , nsayer@kfu.com, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware locks FreeBSD 4.0 solid In-Reply-To: <200004010041.QAA35417@apollo.backplane.com> 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> <200004010041.QAA35417@apollo.backplane.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14565.34363.113650.743338@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Dillon writes: > 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. That was my first thought. It keeps something like 75MB wired. On my desktop (only 192MB) that's a sizeable fraction. > I think Nick's problem is different from the one you were encountering. Yes, probably. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message