From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 1:51:15 2003 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 76A9237B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 01:51:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.laposte.net (mx.laposte.net [213.30.181.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68D643F3F for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 01:51:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yvon.quere@laposte.net) Received: from laposte.net (127.0.0.1) by mx.laposte.net (6.0.053) id 3E493E5200041B80 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:51:12 +0100 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:51:12 +0100 Message-Id: Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?5.0-RELEASE_under_VMWare_3_:_slowdown_and_even_hangup?= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sensitivity: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?yvon.quere@laposte.net?=" To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?freebsd-questions?=" X-XaM3-API-Version: 3.2 R29 (B54 pl1) X-type: 0 X-SenderIP: 213.223.33.226 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there people=0D=0A=0D=0AAnd thanks for taking the time to read the flo= w of incoming =0D=0Aquestions on this list ;-)=0D=0A=0D=0AMy question is = a followup of the thread started by Michael =0D=0ARitchie a couple weeks = ago =0D=0Ahttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?=0D=0Afetch=3D2417405+241= 9960+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-=0D=0Aquestions/20030126.freebsd= -questions=0D=0A=0D=0AI'm kinda in the same situation : XP Pro, WMWare 3.= 2, several =0D=0Avirtual machines running fine (linux,w2k), but the freeb= sd 5-=0D=0ARELEASE is quite a pain to use in this env.=0D=0A=0D=0AThe gue= st OS keeps on slowing down, to the point that it's =0D=0Aunusable.=0D=0A= I'd say that after 30 minutes, it starts slowing down a lot. =0D=0AThe in= stallation process is quite risky in this matter. =0D=0A=0D=0AI launched = a kernel compilation 15 hours ago. The system was =0D=0Aalready slow and = ... the compilation is not over !!=0D=0A=0D=0AI see no process named "idl= e" (see the previous thread), but, =0D=0Ahaving launched a "top" in anoth= er terminal, here's what I =0D=0Asee :=0D=0A=0D=0A0% user, 0% nice, 8.3% = system, 91.7% interrupt !!!=0D=0A=0D=0ANow I can't do anything on this vi= rtual machine. Not a ctrl-C, =0D=0Anot even changing console.=0D=0A=0D=0A= =0D=0AKris Kenna talked about a kernel option for fix this. The =0D=0Apro= blem would be related to a specific opcode emulation done =0D=0Aby VMWare= .=0D=0A=0D=0AAny help would be greatly appreciated, I just can't use 5.0 = =0D=0Aright now in this environnement.=0D=0A=0D=0AThanks everyone=0D=0A=0D= =0AYvon=0D=0A=0A=0AAcc=E9dez au courrier =E9lectronique de La Poste : www= .laposte.net ; =0A3615 LAPOSTENET (0,13 =80/mn) ; t=E9l : 08 92 68 13 50 = (0,34=80/mn)"=0A=0A To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message