Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:40:27 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102070238360.26976-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010206134107.E820@tao.org.uk>
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Josef Karthauser wrote: > I'm wondering what's changed recently to cause vmware2 running on > the linuxemu to lose a lot of performance with disk I/O. Use of cmpxchg and possibly other SMP pessimizations. > A couple of weeks ago I could boot win2000 under vmware2 in a matter > of minutes; on today's kernel it takes 5 or 10 minutes to boot, > and disk I/O is through the roof. > > Could someone please hit me with a clue-bat :) Read your freebsd-emulation mail :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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