Re: Vmware and -current
On Thursday, 23 December 1999 at 21:29:08 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > seems to work fine, > except that now we don't have block devices any more > so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW. > > I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger > on" that really could do with buffered (caching) devices. > > of course this is w98. Strange. Windows 98% does its own buffering. I suppose this really boils down to the relative efficiency of the two buffering methods :-) Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Vmware and -current
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > It is not out of the question to bring buffered disk access back, > but it will be an ioctl enabled function for disks, not a vnode > mode. Peter has suggested doing it with a layered device a'la vn(4). Actually that was me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Vmware and -current
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas David Rivers writes : >> seems to work fine, >> except that now we don't have block devices any more >> so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW. >> >> I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger >> on" that really could do with buffered (caching) devices. > >Hmmm I wonder what it would take to bring them (block devices) back... >probably out of the question at this point... It is not out of the question to bring buffered disk access back, but it will be an ioctl enabled function for disks, not a vnode mode. Peter has suggested doing it with a layered device a'la vn(4). -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Vmware and -current
> seems to work fine, > except that now we don't have block devices any more > so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW. > > I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger > on" that really could do with buffered (caching) devices. Hmmm I wonder what it would take to bring them (block devices) back... probably out of the question at this point... > > of course this is w98. > FreeBSD 1.1.5 and freebsd 3.3 seem run as well but I've only run them off > virtual disks (which therefore have buffering) > - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Vmware and -current
seems to work fine, except that now we don't have block devices any more so every time it gets stuff off disk, it's REALLY SLOW. I guess a virtual machine is the "App that no-one could put their finger on" that really could do with buffered (caching) devices. of course this is w98. FreeBSD 1.1.5 and freebsd 3.3 seem run as well but I've only run them off virtual disks (which therefore have buffering) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
