From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 21 5: 6:13 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 05:06:11 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.123.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350CE37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 05:06:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de (hcswork.hcs.de [192.76.124.5]) by hcshh.hcs.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BDB5D15; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:05:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Postfix, from userid 200) id 929B8292; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:14:26 +0100 (MET) Subject: Re: VMware hanging with more memory In-Reply-To: "from (env: hm) at Dec 21, 2000 10:00:54 am" To: FreeBSD-Stable List Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:14:26 +0100 (MET) Cc: Vivek Khera Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL84 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20001221131426.929B8292@hcswork.hcs.de> From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >From the keyboard of Vivek Khera: > > > HM> Setting down the vmware memory to 64 megs did not solve the problem, > > HM> but removing the 128 megs solved it. With 128 megs i'm again able to > > HM> run vmware. This is strange .... > > > > Yes; there were patches posted the following day. Check the mailing > > list archives. I believe they were committed to CVS, too. I had the > > same problem solved by those patches. Just for the record: i just cvsupped, made world, made new kernel and vmware port and things are working now flawlessly with 256 megs memory (and without paging!). This vmware thingie is really great stuff! Thanks again, hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message