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Date:      18 Dec 2002 18:23:12 +0300
From:      "Vladimir B. " Grebenschikov <vova@express.ru>
To:        "van den Berg, Courteney" <Courteney.vandenBerg@slat.de>
Cc:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 (RC1) slow down
Message-ID:  <1040224990.718.28.camel@vbook>
In-Reply-To: <DC7BBA052153A84B80089812D88618C727B2DD@mail.slat.de>
References:  <DC7BBA052153A84B80089812D88618C727B2DD@mail.slat.de>

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=F7 Wed, 18.12.2002, =D7 18:17, van den Berg, Courteney =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=
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> Has anyone here seen slow down problems when running RC1 as a guest OS
> on Vmware (GSX or Workstation)? After about 2 minutes of normal running
> the VM slows to an absolute crawl. On the host the processor sits at
> 100% with almost 100% of it kernel time. The exact amount of time
> required to slow the vm down seems to depend on the amount of activity
> inside the VM. It's difficult to really measure though.
>=20
> The most bizzare thing is the work around that I accidentally
> discovered. If I turn off acceleration (or on, it doesn't make any
> difference which) in the Vmware configuration panel then the VM comes
> back to life. A minute or two later though and it slows down again. So,
> as long as I sit here toggling acceleration on and off everything runs
> smoothly.
>=20
> Anyone know a tweek or workaround for this?

options         CPU_DISABLE_CMPXCHG

May be this will help ?

> CJ

--=20
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov <vova@express.ru>
TSB "Russian Express"

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