Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 02:52:59 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Armin Ollig <armin@metzelkueche.tabu.uni-bonn.de> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware again... Message-ID: <20000103185259.C5DEC1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Armin Ollig <armin@metzelkueche.tabu.uni-bonn.de> of "Mon, 03 Jan 2000 17:48:23 %2B0100." <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001031721570.5848-100000@metzelkueche.tabu.uni-bonn.de>
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Armin Ollig wrote: > Hi, > > i am running vladimir's vmware port on -current as described on > http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/ > > Thanks a lot for this nice port :-) > > However my problem is when running NT 4.0 SP4 on vmware the virtual > machine does freeze for about 7 seconds in intervals of about 30secs. This is the syncer process doing a msync() of the mmap'ed virtual memory file every 30 seconds. I have a trivial patch that should fix this properly, but I haven't been in a position to reboot my box that has vmware on it to test it. (background: vmware mmap's /var/tmp/somefile and then unlinks it. My tweak is to stop msyncing files that have been unlinked as the data does not need to be saved in a reboot. Pending dirty data is already discarded when a file is closed if it is unlinked already.) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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