Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 00:31:14 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> To: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Cc: vsilyaev@mindspring.com, guido@gvr.org, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, dbutter@wireless.net Subject: Re: VMware: Questions... Message-ID: <19991220003114.A1066@jupiter.delta.ny.us> In-Reply-To: <ybsaen6wa3o.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>; from simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp on Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 12:43:23PM %2B0900 References: <19991218204438.A706@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <19991219174414.A89114@gvr.gvr.org> <19991219122016.A453@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <ybsaen6wa3o.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 12:43:23PM +0900, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: > > > going on (as seen from iostat or systat -vmstat). I am seeing > > > 100 transaction per second. > > I fill such freezes with linux as guest, but I never seen any disk activity > > in that time. I don't have access to vmware sources or to any other source > > of information, so I don't have any thinks about this freezes. > > This is because mmaped file is written every 30 second by sync daemon. > The file is usually named /var/tmp/ram0 but it's unlinked right after > opened so you cannot see it by 'ls' although it exits. Yes, I know about this files (VMware leave some comments in vmmon code, why they didn't use MAP_ANON). > > Fortunately, MAP_NOSYNC is available recently. I use the following > patch. It's urgly but simple. Ooo! Thanks a lot! How you were discover this? -- Vladimir Silyaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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