From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 25 17:34: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA0771517E for ; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 17:33:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA36606; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:03:19 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:03:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vmware and -current Message-ID: <19991226120319.I1316@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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