Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:07:28 -0400 From: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> To: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash Message-ID: <6C389C71-9762-4E02-A590-EB17359052EC@longcount.org> In-Reply-To: <op.wkooaxao34t2sn@me-pc> References: <op.wbwe9s0k34t2sn@tech304> <201205311157.42909.jhb@freebsd.org> <19d73256-b7c6-417e-a051-a5faeabf219d@email.android.com> <201209121520.26337.jhb@freebsd.org> <op.wkkwu1sx34t2sn@tech304> <5051F7A0.90901@FreeBSD.org> <op.wkk0qzwj34t2sn@tech304> <20120913162815.GA1219@pix.net> <op.wkla2ksa34t2sn@tech304> <50524C67.3040403@FreeBSD.org> <F19B7985-3286-4026-8106-66F3A3BB07AD@longcount.org> <66357a32-b570-4dc3-a27c-d32903da41db@email.android.com> <FA5D6460-FCB1-4A9E-BC87-B8808F657723@longcount.org> <op.wkmlu5gu34t2sn@tech304> <9566CAD6-AD55-4BC5-B9B0-92C15949A63B@longcount.org> <op.wkooaxao34t2sn@me-pc>
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On Sep 15, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:37:40 -0500, Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> wro= te: >=20 >> How do you have suj on 8.3 ? Are you using a patch ? >=20 > I don't have suj on 8.3 I misread the prior emails=20 >=20 >> Also can you retest 9 with the following sysctlkern.timecounter.hardware=3D= Acpi-fast >=20 > Yes, I'll attempt that as soon as possible. We're under a tight deadline t= o migrate critical resources off of VMWare now so I don't know how soon I ca= n test. >=20 >> Also in esxi what setup options do you have for the vm's ? >=20 > I'm not sure what ones I have off the top of my head, but VMWare support h= as previously poured over ever option to make sure nothing was misconfigured= . >=20 It's not that I doubt that , in my experience their support is not equipped t= o answer questions that don't start with " in my windows vm I have this issu= e ..."=20 >> Lastly do you have esxi setup to talk to a ntp server ? If so can you con= firm that it's working ? I mean the esxi host not the vm . >=20 > Yes, and yes. We've got a reliable NTP infrastructure at work and ESXi is d= efinitely using it. Just checking this can cause odd issues .=20 What hardware is the esxi host server ? What are you using for the vm disks?= Is the storage pool on local disks , iscsi , fiber channel , or nfs . =20 --- Mark saad | mark.saad@longcount.org
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