Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-24 Thread Václav Haisman
Ivan Voras wrote, On 17.2.2007 13:46: > Vlad GALU wrote: > >> At work, we have several build guests running FreeBSD. Overall it >> seems to be a timer problem when running in VMware. Running >> vmware-guestd helped in almost all circumstances. The worst cases we >> saw were in processes who were

Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-17 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Petri Helenius wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: I don't know whose fault this is, VMWares or FreeBSD's, but virtualization is popular, and since FreeBSD is very much lagging behind for server-side virtualization (Xen, VMWare, etc. - jails and vimage What is the status of Xen port to FreeBSD ? (ha

Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-17 Thread Vlad GALU
On 2/17/07, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: > Vlad GALU wrote: > >> At work, we have several build guests running FreeBSD. Overall it >> seems to be a timer problem when running in VMware. Running >> vmware-guestd helped in almost all circumstances. The worst cases we >>

Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: > Vlad GALU wrote: > >> At work, we have several build guests running FreeBSD. Overall it >> seems to be a timer problem when running in VMware. Running >> vmware-guestd helped in almost all circumstances. The worst cases we >> saw were in processes who were sleep()-ing. > > M

Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Vlad GALU wrote: > At work, we have several build guests running FreeBSD. Overall it > seems to be a timer problem when running in VMware. Running > vmware-guestd helped in almost all circumstances. The worst cases we > saw were in processes who were sleep()-ing. My frst thought was that someth

Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-16 Thread Vlad GALU
On 2/17/07, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I haven't been using virtual machines for production much, but this is likely to change in the near future. After running some benchmarks, it looks like there's something very bad with performance under VMWare. I've tried two things: the big "VMW

Re: Virtual performance

2007-02-16 Thread Petri Helenius
Ivan Voras wrote: I don't know whose fault this is, VMWares or FreeBSD's, but virtualization is popular, and since FreeBSD is very much lagging behind for server-side virtualization (Xen, VMWare, etc. - jails and vimage What is the status of Xen port to FreeBSD ? (haven't heard about it late

Virtual performance

2007-02-16 Thread Ivan Voras
I haven't been using virtual machines for production much, but this is likely to change in the near future. After running some benchmarks, it looks like there's something very bad with performance under VMWare. I've tried two things: the big "VMWare Infrastructure" product, version 3.0.1 and the s