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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: "George V. Balis" <gbalis@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Damn slow startup
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or tell teh config it is a 386 cpu as well as a '686
that will force it to emulate those very slowly done instructins so that
they are actually done faster :-)


On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Run -stable.  VMWare takes a very long time to emulate
> certain locking primitives, for some reason.
> 
> -- Terry
> 
> "George V. Balis" wrote:
> > 
> > Hi everybody
> > 
> > I recently updated through cvsup a 4.5 stable FreeBSD running on Vmware.
> > I followed the instructions from the handbook building both the world
> > and the GENERIC kernel. When I finally rebooted, It takes almost 2-3
> > hours to boot being extremely slow. I never really let it finish booting
> > and started doing it all over again. Does this have smth to do with the
> > WITNESS kernel option? If no do you have any idea as to what might be
> > wrong.
> > 
> > George
> > 
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