Martti Kuparinen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Any ideas why the 4.0_BETA is so slow in time related things inside 
> VMware? Maybe GCC 4 related?
>
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>
> Martti Kuparinen:
>
>> xxx wrote:
>> > With NetBSD 4 daily snapshot 20060824 on 
>> VMware-workstation-5.5.0-18463
>> > on Fedora Core 4 on Thinkpad T23, time runs at 1/5th of the normal
>> > speed.  The good news is that the "sleep 1" delay and the "date"
>> > output are consistent.
>>
>> That's weird.
>>
>> Could you install NetBSD 3.x inside VMware and see if you get same 
>> results?
>
For i386, amd64, sparc, sparc64 and prep the time keeping code has been 
changed to
FreeBSD's timecounters. Could you send me the /var/run/dmesg.boot file 
and the output
of "sysctl kern.timecounter" ? There might be something different 
depending on which
counter is picked and what counter frequency is assumed.

> ,
> I already had one lying around from eatly January this year.
>
> NetBSD 3.0 runs just fine inside VMware 3.
>
Frank