From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 17:51:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA5B16A4BF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (meitner.wh.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.129.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C80A43FAF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:51:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (pc2-105.intern.meitner [10.3.12.105]) by meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5161167587 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 02:51:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gmx.net (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7T0p9pc039051 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 02:51:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Message-ID: <3F4EA37B.4090603@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 02:51:07 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: 4.8-Stable VMware performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:51:11 -0000 NOTE: Please CC me on answers, as I'm not subscribed to this mailing list, thanks! The subject has probably been discussed many times, still I can't find anything useful in the archives. I'm running a pretty recent FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE in VMware 4.0.1, with Windows 2000 being the host OS. I run FreeBSD directly from a real partition, in order to save me a reboot once in a while. The performance of the whole thing in the virtual machine however is unsatisfying, especially if I compare it side-by-side with a Knoppix, also run in the VMware. While in Knoppix KDE is pretty responsive and sound works fine, FreeBSD becomes quite hogged as soon as XFree86 is up and running and sound is very choppy with or without XFree86 running. I have stumbled over the 5-only kernel option CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG, which is said to help things, but the messages describing it date quite a while back. Are there any known performance tweaks for FreeBSD 4 & VMware? The host machine is a 2.4 GHz P4 with 512 MB RAM. NOTE: Please CC me on answers, as I'm not subscribed to this mailing list, thanks! -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org