What could we ask you that would get you to post those "messages from boot"?
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Gene <gh5...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
