From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 6 17:52:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C15637B491; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f171o6221006; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 01:50:06 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f16NUDN00646; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:30:13 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200102062330.f16NUDN00646@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Bruce Evans , Josef Karthauser , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 07:55:15 PST." <3A801E63.52D2B524@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 23:30:13 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > > > I'm wondering what's changed recently to cause vmware2 running on > > > the linuxemu to lose a lot of performance with disk I/O. > > > > Use of cmpxchg and possibly other SMP pessimizations. > > > > > 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 :) > > > > Read your freebsd-emulation mail :-). > > You are wrong Bruce, the cmpxchg discussion was regarding why > running FreeBSD as a GUEST OS was slow, because the virtual machine was > very slow at emulating them. That does not explain why Windows2000 and the Boot > loader > both slowed down by a factor or 3->6 over teh last 2 weeks. > > It's even slower to start up, before it has even started any emulation.. > > This feels like the system is massively slowing down page activations or > some other sort of exceptions that are standard for vmware. > > The same vmware with the same guest OS (not been updated) is now much slower. Indeed. I've been doing a ``make build'' on an OpenBSD-current vm for three days (probably about 36 hours excluding suspends) on a 366MHz laptop with a ATA33 disk. This is on a Feb 4 kernel. NetBSD next.... > -- > __--_|\ Julian Elischer > / \ julian@elischer.org > ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 > ---> X_.---._/ > v -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message