Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 07:26:46 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O Message-ID: <3A8017B6.B278F3CE@elischer.org> References: <20010206134107.E820@tao.org.uk>
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Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what's changed recently to cause vmware2 running on
> the linuxemu to lose a lot of performance with disk I/O.
>
> A couple of weeks ago I could boot win2000 under vmware2 in a matter
> of minutes; on today's kernel it takes 5 or 10 minutes to boot,
> and disk I/O is through the roof.
>
> Could someone please hit me with a clue-bat :)
>
> Joe
>
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I noticed this too. It's about 3 x slower for me. Even the startup sequence
when we haven't even loaded the bootblocks is MUCH slower..
I'm using vmware 1.0.x and running FreeBSD on it for kernel debugging.
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