On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi, When starting VMware-Player I get the following message:The host's Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled. Multiprocessor virtual machines exhibit degraded performance without yield(). Choose 'OK' to enable the sysctl 'kernel.sched_compat_yield' or 'Cancel' to continue without yield(). Looking around at VMware's site they recommend changing /etc/sysctl.conf to enable the feature: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1027987 I can do that but I'm pretty sure that if I edit that file then I'll lose the edits some day when doing etc-update's.
Gentoo will never overwrite your /etc config files. New files are created with an "._" prefix. When that happens, portage tells you that "N files in /etc/ need updating." At that point, you either manually merge the changes or use a tool like "dispatch-conf" (I recommend this one) or "etc-update". And until you do so, the old files will be used.
