From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 12:17:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E85D16A403 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:17:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from ws.helenmarks.co.uk (ws.helenmarks.co.uk [81.19.179.151]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18F713C448 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:17:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) X-Virus-Scanned: mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk Message-ID: <4504.195.12.22.194.1178798447.squirrel@mail.helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070510111326.GA94093@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20070510111326.GA94093@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:00:47 +0100 (BST) From: "Dominic Marks" To: "Darren Reed" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiences with 7.0-CURRENT and vmware. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:17:40 -0000 Darren Reed wrote: > > I'm using FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT under vmware and there are a few issues. > > First, time. > hint.hw.acpi.disabled="1" > This appears to make _no_ difference to time keeping on FreeBSD 7 > and nor does it seem to have any impact on ACPI being loaded. Do > I need to recompile a new kernel without it or is there a new way > to disable ACPI? > > I should add that FreeBSD 6, with the same setting, is no better > and that I need to run ntpdate every 5-10 minutes via crontab in > order to keep good time (timekeeping is *really* bad.) In one > instance, i was watching "zpool iostat 1" and it appeared like the > rows were muching up at a rate of 2 a second for a minute or so. > How do I disable TSC timekeeping? (NetBSD has this disabled by > default in their kernels.) Or is there somethign else I must do? Does: hint.apic.0.disabled=1 Help? > Second, networking. > Prior to FreeBSD-7, the driver to use inside vmware workstation > was lnc. It has worked and contiues to work great. No problemo. > FreeBSD-7 uses the "em" driver. To put it simply, it sucks in > comparison. When things really get bad I start seeing "em0: watchdog > timeout" messages on the console. I looked and I don't see a lnc > driver anywhere. Is there another alternative (le?) driver that > I can use in place of em, if so, how? > > Apart from these two issues (which are very central ones :-(), > I'm using FreeBSD in a 64bit vmware workstation environment > quick successfully and ZFS is quite happy with all the kva :-) > ZFS and zpools are working just as I expect, even if a bit > slower due to vmware but I'm not cranking out benchmarks here. > > Oh, and how do I fix ssh/rsh to do passwordless sessions? > I'm trying to setup cron jobs to automate various tasks but > there's this small hurdle called a password prompt that I > can't seem to get rid of :-/ Use a password-free (R|D)SA key. Dominic