From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 17 13:26:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F3B16A407 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:26:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dudu@dudu.ro) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44ABC13C4A5 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:26:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dudu@dudu.ro) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so1339320nzh for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:26:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.233.12 with SMTP id f12mr6424736qbh.1171718813678; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:26:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.220.15 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:26:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:26:53 +0200 From: "Vlad GALU" To: "Ivan Voras" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:26:54 -0000 On 2/17/07, Ivan Voras wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: > > Vlad GALU wrote: > > > >> At work, we have several build guests running FreeBSD. Overall it > >> seems to be a timer problem when running in VMware. Running > >> vmware-guestd helped in almost all circumstances. The worst cases we > >> saw were in processes who were sleep()-ing. > > > > My frst thought was that something's wrong with timers, but it's slow in > > "real" time (walltime). > > And I've just tried it - running VMWare tools doesn't help performance > at all. Sad. > > -- If it's there, and you can see it, it's real. If it's not there, and you can see it, it's virtual. If it's there, and you can't see it, it's transparent. If it's not there, and you can't see it, you erased it.