Re: NetBSD-5.1 running under Parallels VM on Mac OS X

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 07:56:25AM +0100, Kurt Schreiner wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:25:23PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 03:12:07PM +0100, Kurt Schreiner wrote:
> > > Just did a little "benchmark" on my iMac:
> > 
> > What spec is that machine? I found the VMware Fusion virtual machines gets
> > slower when I use as many virtual CPUs as the host has real CPU cores.
> It's the "big" iMac: Core-i7 2,93Ghz with 12GB RAM, 1T Disk. So 4 real cores.
> Hm, I could try on the MacPro at work w/ 2 quad core Xeons (2,26GHz)...

That might make a difference. I've got a Dual Quad Core Mac Pro and
found that an 8 core VM overloaded the system. As a result a 4 core VM
finished the build faster.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/