Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:52:08 +0900 From: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.freebsd.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on vmware Message-ID: <20011129215208U.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200111282004.aa22335@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20011129000718I.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <200111282004.aa22335@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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iedowse> ... but only if you spend most of your time running CPU benchmarks :-) That's right :-) iedowse> On slower CPUs (I was using a 400MHz PII), the interrupts can iedowse> soak up virtually all of the available processing capacity iedowse> without the patch. I suspect this effect is responsible for iedowse> the most dramatic speedups. I don't know that we can add a new option, maybe named 'VMWARE_GUEST', for specific hardware. But if someone (I don't know who) allows us to do, we all VMware users will be happy with it. -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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