From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 20 8:45:44 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 08:45:42 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.123.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4006537B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:45:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de (hcswork.hcs.de [192.76.124.5]) by hcshh.hcs.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E955F5D1B for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:45:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Postfix, from userid 200) id A54E3294; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:53:55 +0100 (MET) Subject: VMware hanging with more memory To: FreeBSD-Stable List Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:53:55 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL84 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20001220165355.A54E3294@hcswork.hcs.de> From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Recently i bought vmware and installed it by using the port on a recent FreeBSD 4.2 stable. It worked nearly out of the box but i noticed the machine (which had 128 megs of ram) started swapping so i bought another 128 megs of ram. Since i installed them to get 256 megs i was not able to run vmware anymore, the machine just hangs. I'm able to move the X cursor with the mouse and i am able to switch virtual terminals (and break into DDB) but nothing more. Setting down the vmware memory to 64 megs did not solve the problem, but removing the 128 megs solved it. With 128 megs i'm again able to run vmware. This is strange .... I just scanned the mailing list archives and found Barry Lustig having reported nearly/exactly the same problem on 12/5/00. Has this been solved somehow in the meantime ? hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message