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
