Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:19:04 -0800 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: vmware pegging the CPU? Message-ID: <15933.46456.409281.504085@rosebud.alerce.com>
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I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p3 and vmware from ports (vmware2-2.0.4.1142). I've moved over a virtual disk w/ Windows98 that's been running happily on this same laptop running various generations of RedHat Linux (most recently 7.2). In the old [Linux] days, the cpu-meter would jump and stick at 1 while the virtual machine was waiting for me to log in (name and password), and then as long as I wasn't doing anything, the load would drop down to near zero. On the FreeBSD system the CPU stays pegged at one and the vmware process piles up most of the cpu time. I've tried attaching to the running vmware via gdb and I seem to always catch it in a select. I had to make some changes to the configuration to get the image on the virtual disk to run, but the only thing that seems relevant is that I've [for the moment] switch from a host-only network that the host-os NAT'ed out to a bridged interface. The cpu being pegged causes the fan to run constantly and drains all of the juice in the laptop's batteries.... Can anyone make a suggestion about how I can figure out what it's up to? g. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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