From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 18 7:23:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF30337B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from vbook.express.ru (asplinux.ru [195.133.213.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAAF643EB2 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:23:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vova@sw.ru) Received: from vova by vbook.express.ru with local (Exim 4.10) id 18Og2T-0000dQ-00; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:23:13 +0300 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 (RC1) slow down From: "Vladimir B. " Grebenschikov To: "van den Berg, Courteney" Cc: "current@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Organization: TSB "Russian Express" Message-Id: <1040224990.718.28.camel@vbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 18 Dec 2002 18:23:12 +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =F7 Wed, 18.12.2002, =D7 18:17, van den Berg, Courteney =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1= =CC: > 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 TSB "Russian Express" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message