Date: 18 Dec 2002 18:23:12 +0300 From: "Vladimir B. " Grebenschikov <vova@express.ru> To: "van den Berg, Courteney" <Courteney.vandenBerg@slat.de> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 (RC1) slow down Message-ID: <1040224990.718.28.camel@vbook> In-Reply-To: <DC7BBA052153A84B80089812D88618C727B2DD@mail.slat.de> References: <DC7BBA052153A84B80089812D88618C727B2DD@mail.slat.de>
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=F7 Wed, 18.12.2002, =D7 18:17, van den Berg, Courteney =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1= =CC: > Has anyone here seen slow down problems when running RC1 as a guest OS > on Vmware (GSX or Workstation)? After about 2 minutes of normal running > the VM slows to an absolute crawl. On the host the processor sits at > 100% with almost 100% of it kernel time. The exact amount of time > required to slow the vm down seems to depend on the amount of activity > inside the VM. It's difficult to really measure though. >=20 > The most bizzare thing is the work around that I accidentally > discovered. If I turn off acceleration (or on, it doesn't make any > difference which) in the Vmware configuration panel then the VM comes > back to life. A minute or two later though and it slows down again. So, > as long as I sit here toggling acceleration on and off everything runs > smoothly. >=20 > Anyone know a tweek or workaround for this? options CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG May be this will help ? > CJ --=20 Vladimir B. Grebenschikov <vova@express.ru> TSB "Russian Express" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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