I am observing similar symptoms as described in the original letter (by Iasen Kostov). I am using the vmware3 port. My desktop machine is a P3 1Gh with 512Mb. The vmware guest (a Windows 2000) is allocated 256Mb. Every once in a while (around five times a day), the machine freezes. The clock on the toolbar stops counting the seconds. I have top running on a session from another machine (it is a second machine I can switch to using KVM) which also freezes (no screen refresh). Disk activity is heavy (lamp is on). After over 30 seconds, the machine is back to normal and everything works fine. The vmware process resident size goes down from ~200Mb to ~100Mb. I also notices some relations to running acroread 7 with large PDF files (which might also need shared memory for its operation). I had the exact same problem on the same box when I was running FreeBSD 4.10 (which I attributed at first to a bad disk, which was replaced when I upgraded from 4.10 to 6.1).
Details of my setup: zed# pkg_info | grep acro acroread7-7.0.1,1 Adobe Reader for view, print, and search PDF documents (ENU acroreadwrapper-0.0.20060221 Wrapper script for Adobe Reader zed# pkg_info | grep vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_13,1 A virtual machine emulator - a full PC in a window zed# uname -a FreeBSD zed.tau.ac.il 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 zed# vmstat -s 3085682937 cpu context switches 1891952501 device interrupts 102932808 software interrupts 224976183 traps 3444466737 system calls 43 kernel threads created 90785 fork() calls 9290 vfork() calls 0 rfork() calls 152515 swap pager pageins 320318 swap pager pages paged in 109683 swap pager pageouts 335657 swap pager pages paged out 607136 vnode pager pageins 1527655 vnode pager pages paged in 382684 vnode pager pageouts 674383 vnode pager pages paged out 13048 page daemon wakeups 169035203 pages examined by the page daemon 1758718 pages reactivated 4566067 copy-on-write faults 3783 copy-on-write optimized faults 119970368 zero fill pages zeroed 101409420 zero fill pages prezeroed 160241 intransit blocking page faults 144326574 total VM faults taken 0 pages affected by kernel thread creation 6901381 pages affected by fork() 1204954 pages affected by vfork() 0 pages affected by rfork() 185857018 pages freed 187 pages freed by daemon 51557423 pages freed by exiting processes 44604 pages active 7181 pages inactive 3777 pages in VM cache 64942 pages wired down 5806 pages free 4096 bytes per page 1945885066 total name lookups cache hits (95% pos + 4% neg) system 0% per-directory deletions 0%, falsehits 0%, toolong 0% -- Yaron. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"