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 -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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