From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 23 11:56:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0398237B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:56:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1244843E4A for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:56:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0NJuS6F016241; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:56:28 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h0NJuS0S016240; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:56:28 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:56:28 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Lev Serebryakov Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2 Message-ID: <20030123115628.B14383@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <975523843.20030123225001@serebryakov.spb.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <975523843.20030123225001@serebryakov.spb.ru>; from lev@serebryakov.spb.ru on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:01PM +0300 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:01PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, current! How are you? >=20 > When I needed to experiment with 4.6-RELEASE and I didn't have > ``free'' computer, I installed 4.6-RELEASE on VMWare. It works > pretty well and I was totally satisfied. >=20 > My host is: 2xP!!!-770Mhz, 512Mb of memory, Hardware RAID with > 2x40Gb IBM IDE HDDs (and one simple system disk). Host OS is W'2000 WS. >=20 > Now I'm trying to look at 5.0-RELEASE (I've downloaded ISO of first > i386 CD). >=20 > It doesn't work under VMWare 3.2! Ok, it works, really. But speed is > VERY low. I even could not do installation! Unpacking of > distributive have been started at normal speed, but after 2 or 3 > minutes speed decreased to 6Kb/s and after that to 1Kb/s! `top' on > emergency console shows, that cpio+gunzip take only 5% of CPU, > system takes 25% of CPU and interrupts takes 70% of CPU! >=20 > 4.6-RELEASE installs on same VMWare virtual computer without any > problems and works very fast! >=20 > Is it problem of VMWare or 5.0-RELEASE? Is it known problem? I could > provide any additional information, if needed. =46rom sys/i386/conf/NOTES: # CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG disables the CMPXCHG instruction on > i386 IA32=20 # machines. VmWare seems to emulate this instruction poorly, causing=20 # the guest OS to run very slowly. Enabling this with a SMP kernel # will cause the kernel to be unusable. You need a kernel with this option or compiled with "cpu I386_CPU". -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+MEjrXY6L6fI4GtQRAtZdAJwKWeTbrZUNaCv1fFF+9Tne6wKcOQCfZBwA fiyFgBS+tsQH4r28b+TTMuM= =Zz75 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message