From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Jan 3 10:53: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE60014A04 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:53:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5DEC1CA0; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 02:52:59 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Armin Ollig Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware again... In-Reply-To: Message from Armin Ollig of "Mon, 03 Jan 2000 17:48:23 +0100." Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 02:52:59 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000103185259.C5DEC1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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