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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9front pegs CPU on VMware
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:52:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0378c6bfc1794b3322e00aac6821392c@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABwHSOubXhaQ+h-P45qMZ6vNHuGZx9pJJ7JfX4Wdy+R0wEQTpA@mail.gmail.com>

> I am running 9plan on VMware Fusion successfully, however, the CPU is
> pegged.  I've seen this before with DOS.  Basically the OS has its own idle
> loop so VMware sees it as always using CPU.  There is a patch to fix this
> issue with a DOS guest.  Any ideas with 9front?

change idlehands in /sys/src/9/pc to call halt unconditionally instead of
whatever it's doing now.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-16  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-16  1:49 Blake McBride
2013-12-16  1:52 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2013-12-16  2:35   ` Blake McBride
2013-12-16  2:58     ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-16  3:05       ` Blake McBride
2013-12-16 10:17     ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-16 14:57       ` Blake McBride
2013-12-16 15:34         ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-16 16:25           ` Matthew Veety
2013-12-16 16:59             ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-17 11:00           ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-17 13:38             ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-17 14:14               ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-19  9:01             ` Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz
2013-12-19 14:16               ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-12-19 15:19               ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-19 15:57                 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-12-19 16:15                   ` erik quanstrom

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