Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:48:23 +0100 (MET) From: Armin Ollig <armin@metzelkueche.tabu.uni-bonn.de> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: vmware again... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001031721570.5848-100000@metzelkueche.tabu.uni-bonn.de>
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Hi, i am running vladimir's vmware port on -current as described on http://www.mindspring.com/~vsilyaev/vmware/ Thanks a lot for this nice port :-) However my problem is when running NT 4.0 SP4 on vmware the virtual machine does freeze for about 7 seconds in intervals of about 30secs. My setup is this: - virtual ide disk (on dedicated scsi disk da1) - 64mb ram - virt cdrom drive (maps to my scsi drive) - floppy disk - host networking (works well) - mouse When i monitor the freebsd system with vmstat it shows me that when the virtual machine freezes disk access to da0 (my freebsd disk (the virtual disk for vmware is on da1)) is heavy also page-out activity is heave too: procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr da0 da1 in sy cs us sy id 0 3 0 139436 4924 61 1 1 12 26 93 0 0 285 2000 228 9 57 34 1 3 0 139524 4904 83 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 301 2256 442 7 23 69 0 7 0 139524 4896 31 0 0 274 1 0 106 4 456 1568 311 6 12 82 0 7 0 139524 4892 5 0 0 0 0 0 148 0 418 332 42 1 2 97 0 3 0 139772 4888 91 0 0 0 0 0 37 0 387 1865 336 7 22 71 1 3 0 139772 4876 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 310 1824 451 5 23 72 0 3 0 139772 4876 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 275 1808 491 3 23 74 1 3 0 136988 4876 82 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 298 1700 425 5 21 73 0 3 0 136168 4876 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 298 1430 373 2 21 77 0 6 0 130956 4884 34 0 0 274 1 0 35 0 266 1027 309 3 19 78 0 6 0 131756 4884 1 0 0 10 0 0 153 0 429 790 243 1 2 97 1 3 0 135696 4884 32 0 0 0 0 0 111 0 389 980 224 5 8 87 1 3 0 135696 4880 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 280 1969 365 5 22 73 1 3 0 134896 4880 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 283 1534 416 2 21 76 0 3 0 134896 4880 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 229 1167 295 1 20 79 1 3 0 134008 4880 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 255 1339 322 2 22 77 0 8 0 137316 4552 22 0 0 121 21 0 111 0 341 347 60 3 5 92 This output shows that during the freezes (3 times) the page-out activity and disk activity on da0 are heavy. WindowsNT "task manager" does not show anything during the freezes. However when i run the cpu-eating screen saver ("3D OpenGL") the virtual machine does *not* freeze at all. The screensaver runns smooth and vmstat does not report any heave disk or page-out activity: procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr da0 da1 in sy cs us sy id 1 3 0 124680 7484 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 236 893 231 1 99 0 1 3 0 124680 7484 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 229 801 217 2 98 0 1 3 0 102072 7480 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 229 790 205 2 98 0 1 3 0 101272 7480 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 230 804 218 3 97 0 1 3 0 101272 7480 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 237 900 240 2 98 0 1 3 0 102892 7480 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 229 803 215 2 98 0 1 3 0 102892 7480 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 229 789 204 2 98 0 1 3 0 102892 7480 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 229 790 214 1 99 0 1 3 0 102892 7480 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 234 864 226 2 98 0 2 3 0 101272 7480 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 234 889 242 2 98 0 1 3 0 123884 7480 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 237 907 238 1 99 0 1 3 0 124684 7480 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 258 1453 391 4 96 0 1 3 0 124684 7480 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 244 1029 267 3 97 0 1 3 0 124684 7480 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 242 1051 289 2 98 0 1 3 0 102072 7480 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 244 1009 270 2 98 0 1 3 0 101276 7476 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 244 1070 298 3 97 0 1 3 0 101276 7476 2 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 239 830 224 2 96 2 1 3 0 131380 7472 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 232 1782 260 4 96 0 2 3 0 131380 7464 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 233 971 189 16 84 0 1 3 0 131380 7456 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 229 585 105 25 75 0 1 3 0 129652 7456 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 284 752 124 32 68 0 all fine in screen-saver mode :-) Does anyone experienced this too ? And what about win95/98 ? Do they freeze too for some seconds ? best regards, --Armin -- "To save energy the light at the end of the tunnel will temporarily be switched off." PS: my system is a p2@300mhz, 128mb ram, scsi disk+cdrom. i did this test with and without swap space. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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