From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 25 17:36:45 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 85AF437B401 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:36:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-205.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D586343E4A for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:36:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8D866CFB; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:36:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 28E9D1711; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:36:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:36:39 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: nate Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE in VMware Message-ID: <20030126013639.GA16435@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <000901c2c469$8c9e4cf0$0a00a8c0@michaelslaptop> <38719.10.10.10.7.1043538258.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <38719.10.10.10.7.1043538258.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:44:18PM -0800, nate wrote: > Michael Ritchie said: > > Not sure if this should be in -QUESTIONS or a report to VMware themselv= es, > > but when attempting to run FreeBSD 5 within VMware Workstation 3.2 on a > > Windows XP Pro host, the CPU usage sits at 100% -- whether there are any > > processes undertaking heavy processing or not. The host PC is a 1.7GHz > > P4, with 512MB RAM, so there shouldn't be any problems. It takes about= 2 > > minutes for 'man man' to bring up a page. 4.6.2 and 4.7 both work GREA= T, > > even in X. > > > > Any thoughts on why this might be the case?? >=20 > this is symtomatic of the guest OS(freebsd in this case) not having > advanced power management features enabled. No, it's symptomatic of VMWARE emulating a certain CPU opcode (used in FreeBSD 5.0 for locking primitives) very inefficiently. See my previous response. Kris --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+MzumWry0BWjoQKURAgqbAKDpKxugk/Ntq8lPKensk23m3hoOewCg3+0/ FUp7HZnigQZmLrgjdyWYSug= =o7Vr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message