Subject: Re: vmware periodic freeze
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/16/2001 23:37:44
On 07/16/2001 12:03:53 PM ZE2 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
>On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:17:24PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote:
>> >Ok, on the wmware side. But on the NetBSD side, do the machine freeze ?
>>
>> The NetBSD side seems mostly OK. The mouse always moves. But I have
>> the impression that fs access is blocked during this freeze. I noticed
>> it a few times in the past doing a ls in a shell terminal, but now
>> cannot reproduce it.
>
>Maybe the CD drive was on the same channel as the drive ?
>Currently a command sent to a device will hang the channel until the command
>completes.

Is possible. There are 2 ide disks and a scsi disk in there and the CD
is on the primary ide controller together with a disk.

regards,
chris