From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 7 17:26: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6067237B4EC; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:25:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA06100; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:25:17 +1100 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:24:55 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Brian Somers , Julian Elischer , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O In-Reply-To: <20010207231306.B972@tao.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:56:14PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:26:15PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Brian Somers writes: > > > > 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. > > > > > > Would it be possible for someone experiencing this slowdown to try to > > > narrow down the day (or even the week) on which it occurred? > > > > As I think about it it was definitity working before the symbol changes > > in libc/libc_r changed. Was that last week? No probably the week > > before. It was working fine last week, but I'm not sure which day's I > > updated the kernel. > > > > I'll try some builds. > > Ok. The problem definitely began between -D2001-01-29 and -D2001-01-30. > I'll try and binary chop to workout what caused it. If you have ata disks, try "options ATA_ENABLE_WC". Nothing else has changed significantly in this period. I don't know how this would effect vmware boot speeds. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message