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Date:      Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:03:19 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Vmware and -current
Message-ID:  <19991226120319.I1316@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912232121400.61026-100000@current1.whistle.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912232121400.61026-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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On Thursday, 23 December 1999 at 21:29:08 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> seems to work fine,
> except that now we don't have block devices any more
> so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW.
>
> I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger
> on" that really could do with buffered (caching) devices.
>
> of course this is w98.

Strange.  Windows 98% does its own buffering.  I suppose this really
boils down to the relative efficiency of the two buffering methods :-)

Greg
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