What "hardware" version did you use? Have you tried different? // Johan
2011/10/19 Gonzalo L. R. <gonz...@x61.com.ar>: > dmesg? > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:55:19 -0700, Gene <gh5...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm trying to run OpenBSD 4.9 (amd64) under VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi 5). > I >> set up four virtual machines with one core, 256 MB of RAM, and 4 GB of > disk >> space each. I used the install49.iso as my installation medium. Aside >> from >> the OS installation, I haven't installed anything on them yet. >> >> They perform terribly. The load average hovers around 1.5 on all of > these >> VMs although the CPU shows as being idle. Connecting via SSH and > switching >> to root can take over a minute. If I reboot the virtual machines they >> perform well for a short time, but within 15-30 minutes they slow down > to a >> crawl again. >> >> These four machines are spread across two VM hosts, each with six cores > and >> 16 GB of RAM each. I haven't started doing anything with these VMs yet. > >> I >> have other VMs installed (Linux and FreeBSD) and they don't have this >> problem. >> >> Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there tuning I can do to > make >> it work better? I tried disabling mpbios, that did not have an effect. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -Gene > > -- > Sending from my computer
