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Subject: Re: Superpages and VMware ESXi 3.5u4 crashes
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On 9/24/2009 10:23 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> I would agree that this seems like a bug in ESX.  Nonetheless, I'm
> curious to know something about our your system.  What type of processor
> are you using, and in particular is ESX using hardware supported nested
> paging?
>
> Regards,
> Alan
>

I'm using an AMD Phenom 9950. How would I tell if ESXi is using hardware 
supported nested paging? Is this something I can tell in FreeBSD?

-Peter