current-users: time runs at 1/5th speed

Subject: time runs at 1/5th speed
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 09/01/2006 08:48:18

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?

I already had one lying around from eatly January this year.

NetBSD 3.0 runs just fine inside VMware 3.