From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 12 7: 9:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from urban.iinet.net.au (urban.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F1A37B424; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 07:09:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from muzak.iinet.net.au (muzak.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.237]) by urban.iinet.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA30451; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:09:09 +0800 Received: from jules.elischer.org ([203.59.169.234]) by muzak.iinet.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA28355; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:09:05 +0800 Message-ID: <39BE38FC.41C67EA6@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 07:09:00 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be? References: <20000912142745.A7121@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton wrote: > > Hi guys, > > For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to > be? > > I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/ 128MB RAM, and the > following disk controller / disk > > atapci0: port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > ad0: 17301MB [35152/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 > > This is -current from about three weeks ago. It works, but it's a bit slow. > Applications themselves run at a reasonable speed, but every now and then > (can be as frequent as 10-15 seconds) use only virtual disks and see if it still happens. I found (on vmware 1) that using the raw disks was a recipe for poor performance. Since we don't have block devices any more, we are screwed in this regard. Virtual disks (files) are however buffered and so can sometimes work faster. > -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Perth v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message