I'm using amd64. I'll try i386 later today to see if the issue occurs again. Another person replied to me saying i386 works fine for him in ESXi 5.
I had the VMs powered off. I started them back up and am trying to reproduce the problem. So far dmesg isn't giving me anything beyond the messages from boot. Thank you for the replies, it is much appreciated. -Gene On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Johan Ryberg <jo...@securit.se> wrote: > 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
