From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 6 8:27:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from syncopation-03.iinet.net.au (syncopation-03.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0E0C37B491 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:27:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27752 invoked by uid 666); 6 Feb 2001 16:35:03 -0000 Received: from reggae-14-23.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.77.23) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 6 Feb 2001 16:35:03 -0000 Message-ID: <3A8017B6.B278F3CE@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 07:26:46 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josef Karthauser Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O References: <20010206134107.E820@tao.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature 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. -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message