Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> Andrew Gallatin writes:
> >
> > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
> > > Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > I believe that vmware mmaps a region of memory and then somehow syncs
> > > > it to disk. (It is certainly doing something like it here).
> >
Andrew Gallatin writes:
>
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
> > Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I believe that vmware mmaps a region of memory and then somehow syncs
> > > it to disk. (It is certainly doing something like it here).
> >
> > Theory: VMWare mmaps a regio
David Malone wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:47:59PM +, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > > what does systat -vmstat or vmstat 1
> > > show?
> > > Better still, I guess we could do a linux-truss
> > > and see what it's doing...
> >
> > I believe that it's strace under linux. If someone can p
Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
> Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I believe that vmware mmaps a region of memory and then somehow syncs
> > it to disk. (It is certainly doing something like it here).
>
> Theory: VMWare mmaps a region of memory corresponding to the virtual
> ma
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:58:17AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >=20
> > Looks like some way of clustering this might achieve a lot.
> >=20
> > what does systat -vmstat or vmstat 1
> > show?
> > Better still, I guess we could do a linux-truss
> > and see what it's doing...
>
> I believe that
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:47:59PM +, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > what does systat -vmstat or vmstat 1
> > show?
> > Better still, I guess we could do a linux-truss
> > and see what it's doing...
>
> I believe that it's strace under linux. If someone can provide me
> with a binary of this to
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:58:17AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> Looks like some way of clustering this might achieve a lot.
>
> what does systat -vmstat or vmstat 1
> show?
> Better still, I guess we could do a linux-truss
> and see what it's doing...
I believe that it's strace under linux
Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I believe that vmware mmaps a region of memory and then somehow syncs
> it to disk. (It is certainly doing something like it here).
Theory: VMWare mmaps a region of memory corresponding to the virtual
machine's "physical" RAM, then touches every page
Josef Karthauser wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:08:12AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > >
> > > 714 root -14 0 123M 79192K inode0:45 25.29% 25.29% vmware
> > >
> > > When this happens the whole machine freezes also. Processes run, but
> > > new
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:08:12AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Josef Karthauser wrote:
> >
> > 714 root -14 0 123M 79192K inode0:45 25.29% 25.29% vmware
> >
> > When this happens the whole machine freezes also. Processes run, but
> > new processes don't get forked. The whole
Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
> The slowdown during start up appears to be in biowr; this is probably
> because of IDE write caching being switched off. More seriously
> the vmware hangs during various phases of it's boot process.
Write caching is incompaible with soft updates.
The drive must NEVER
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:07:06PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
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> On 7 Feb 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> > Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Indeed. I've been doing a ``make build'' on an OpenBSD-current vm
> > > for three days (probably about 36 hours excluding suspends)
On 7 Feb 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Indeed. I've been doing a ``make build'' on an OpenBSD-current vm
> > for three days (probably about 36 hours excluding suspends) on a
> > 366MHz laptop with a ATA33 disk.
>
> Would it be possible for so
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:56:14PM +, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:26:15PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > Indeed. I've been doing a ``make build'' on an OpenBSD-c
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:56:14PM +, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:26:15PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Indeed. I've been doing a ``make build'' on an OpenBSD-current vm
> > > for three days (probably about 36 ho
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:26:15PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Indeed. I've been doing a ``make build'' on an OpenBSD-current vm
> > for three days (probably about 36 hours excluding suspends) on a
> > 366MHz laptop with a ATA33 disk.
>
> Wo
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 08:26:15PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Indeed. I've been doing a ``make build'' on an OpenBSD-current vm
> > for three days (probably about 36 hours excluding suspends) on a
> > 366MHz laptop with a ATA33 disk.
>
> Wo
Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Indeed. I've been doing a ``make build'' on an OpenBSD-current vm
> for three days (probably about 36 hours excluding suspends) on a
> 366MHz laptop with a ATA33 disk.
Would it be possible for someone experiencing this slowdown to try to
narrow down t
> Bruce Evans wrote:
> >
> > 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 o
Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> 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
Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what's changed recently to cause vmware2 running on
> the linuxemu to lose a lot of performance with disk I/O.
>
> 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
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:40:27AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > Could someone please hit me with a clue-bat :)
>
> Read your freebsd-emulation mail :-).
/me wanders off to subscribe to freebsd-emulation.
Thanks Bruce.
Joe
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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
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